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...Facebook face-off ended peacefully early Friday morning. The protested "News Feed" on the social networking site, which allowed users to track their friends' activities, now has an off-switch. By adjusting their privacy settings, users can limit or block friends from seeing their Facebook movements. The curious can still check their friends' profiles for updates, but they now have to do so manually...
...organizations fighting the ban number in the hundreds as well. State cattlemen's associations, pork and poultry producers and farm bureaus oppose the measure, fearing it would give an opening for animal rights organizations to block the slaughter of other animals for food. The Agriculture Department also doesn't want the measure. When the bill's proponents passed an amendment in the House and Senate last year blocking funding for USDA inspectors at the three slaughterhouses, the department allowed the plants to pay for the inspectors themselves to keep operating...
...intrusive, and that's what upsets students. It's one thing to casually check out a friend's updated profile between classes. It's another to be unwillingly inundated with each friend's latest Facebook antics. The News Feed does not have an off switch, although users can block or limit non-friends from seeing their profiles, which feed directly into the News Feed. At the very least, the aggrieved students want the option of a News Feed off-switch. Some want Facebook to do away with it completely...
...Government corruption, especially on the local level, has been a persistent stumbling block. Yu Panglin, an 84-year-old Shenzhen-based hotelier who tops Hurun's most recent ranking of Chinese philanthropists, recalls that when he donated 10 ambulances to his hometown in 1988, local officials appropriated the cars as their own. Having learned his lesson, says Yu, "I only donate to the projects that I can see and touch myself. I have to ensure that nobody could get illicit gains from my donations." Yu, who gave $250 million in 2005, according to Hurun, focuses his work on Bright Action...
Kids from my block, a teacher here or there. Fred Savage was mad at me for a while...