Word: bulletin
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Last year, my hall in Thayer had a bulletin board with a map of the United States labeled “Where We Are From.” Attached to the map were pieces of orange paper with the names of all the hall’s residents. The coasts were covered in these little slips: San Franciscans crowded into the Pacific Ocean; Manhattanites spilled over into New Jersey. In between the orange masses was a wide expanse of empty map with three exceptions: single slips on Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Aside from Florida and Texas, the Southern states...
...free at 21 and ...") and prurience ("Naked teens attack home director") and romance ("You Asked Me Why"). It mutates at a ferocious rate, constantly changing its size and tactics to evade virus filters, and finds evolving ways to exploit other online media like blogs and bulletin boards. Newer versions might contain, instead of a file, a single link to a fake YouTube page, which crashes your browser while quietly slipping the virus into your computer. "I've heard people talk about this like virus 2.0, just like people talk about Web 2.0, because it's so different from the traditional...
...fitness organization but then eats pizza for a week and gains five pounds. Hypocrite! Now consider the reverse order: the host eats pizza for a week and then publicly joins a fitness group. "In each case," the psychologists wrote in a 2005 paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, "the statements and behaviors are equally inconsistent." But we see something almost noble about the second scenario...
Over the course of eight or nine years, until last August, someone with the handle "rahodeb" posted regularly about the company Whole Foods on Yahoo!'s finance bulletin boards. Rahodeb liked Whole Foods. He didn't care for its competitor Wild Oats. Rahodeb particularly liked Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. "While I'm not a 'Mackey groupie,'" rahodeb wrote, "I do admire what the man has accomplished." This was true, as far as it went. Rahodeb was not a Mackey groupie. Rahodeb was Mackey...
...There is, however, one place where romance still flourishes: the Internet. Highly restricted under Saddam, Internet access is now unfettered, allowing many young Iraqis to communicate with one another and with the rest of the world. Arabic forums and bulletin boards are teeming with Iraqis looking for friendship-and perhaps a little harmless flirtation. Those who can afford their own computers and webcams can have face-to-face conversations. Skype, the popular Internet phone service, has more than 40,000 users in Iraq...