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...remains distinctly personal. Although social-networking sites typically encourage connections among strangers - like on MySpace, where people converge through common interests, or online dating, where the whole point is to greet new faces - Facebook is geared toward helping people maintain existing connections. The site serves as a self-updating address book, keeping users connected no matter their geographical shifts. "There are people from my past life that I never would have tracked through 10 job changes and 20 e-mail changes," says Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor at Michigan State and lead author of the Facebook "Friends" study, which focused...
...were concerned about the growing problem of Black-on-Black violence and what was then becoming known as the Black underclass. At that time an ad hoc coalition of Black churchmen, in collaboration with the Nation of Islam and other grass roots activist began a series of fora to address the issue. These initiatives, reported in both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson were, amusingly, never reported in any of the research which evolved into a cottage industry, on what came to be known as the Boston Miracle. Yet there was a direct connection between the Harvard based initiatives...
...tradition of a farewell address began with George Washington. His stern defense of an independent America free of foreign entanglements and deaf to the intrigues of Europe was the nation's first great speech. Citizens in villages across the country staged annual recitations for decades after Washington's death. Dwight Eisenhower used his valedictory to issue a memorable warning against a permanent "military-industrial complex" - an alert more quoted than heeded. (See pictures of President Bush's summer trip to Europe...
...would be smarter still to throw all that money at things we need to do anyway, which is the goal of Obama's upcoming American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. It will include a mix of tax cuts, aid to beleaguered state and local governments, and spending to address needs ranging from food stamps to computerized health records to bridge repairs to broadband networks to energy-efficiency retrofits, all designed to save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Obama has said speed is his top priority because the faster Washington injects cash into...
Forty-eight years ago to the week, John F. Kennedy issued a call to national service using a still novel technology for political communication: television. "Ask what you can do for your country," he commanded from the Capitol's steps in his Inaugural Address, words that would inspire a generation of leaders to enter government service...