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...that thought doesn't come until the end of this odd page-turner, when Noriko has been effectively brainwashed. In the meantime there are plenty of exquisitely perverse intimations and hard evidences rolled out to rebut it. The flawless family portrait starts to crack after Noriko, while on a brief visit back home to visit her parents, sees a TV news report about the death by home gas explosion of a raspy old ice vendor and his family - tenants of the Shitos, who happen to own and lease several residential properties. Murder-suicide, the police conclude. But an overheard midnight...
That brought to mind the brief history of search-engine domination. If we trace the roots of our Internet behavior back to the Net's wild-west days in the mid-to-late '90s, most of us were probably launching into cyberspace from a portal page like Yahoo's, or through Excite or Lycos (remember them?). And by the new millennium, search engines, especially Google, had become the place to begin and end our Internet days. Then came Generation Y and the social network. What began as a younger-user phenomenon quickly caught on with 25-to-34-year-olds...
Hovering over all of them is the despicable state security officer, Safwat Shakir, who is only too eager to ruin the lives of government critics for a pat on the back. Egypt's ruler - unnamed, but clearly drawn to resemble President Hosni Mubarak - makes a brief, pivotal appearance, too. In one scene, an aide scolds a photographer for asking the President to move "a little to the right" for a better picture, telling him: "The whole of Egypt would move while our revered President remains standing where...
...Gaza friend Azmi Keshawi, though, the brief liberty meant two things: Cairo and chocolate. "I'm taking my wife and kids in the Jeep," he told me when the wall was breached, "and we're driving all the way to Cairo, maybe farther. Just because we can." Actually, Azmi was gone only overnight. He couldn't find any gas in el-Arish, so he turned back. El-Arish's shops had also been picked clean by Gaza's hordes, so Azmi could find no chocolate either, just four big bags of potato chips and a couple of Cokes. No regrets...
...networking sites, boasts a market share of more than 85% of four-year U.S. universities, with millions of members averaging 20 minutes per day on-site exploring interests and keeping track of friends. Facebook has all the power of Meetup, the online campaign sensation that powered Howard Dean's brief moment in the presidential spotlight four years ago - plus much more. Its 65 billion page views per month make Facebook perfect for rapidly spreading messages and creating trends. "A kid puts up an Obama page, and suddenly she has 35 friends gathered," Riemer marvels. "It was so much more work...