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...Yahoo!, could use a new platform itself.) Yet again Zuckerberg said no, he's not selling out - he's just trying to build a great and viable platform and that takes time. Zuckerberg speaks in a steady, mellifluous tenor; he has a long neck and tends to point his chin upward, as if aiming the bell of a saxophone. "A lot of the last year in developing the platform has just been keeping up with the runaway success there," he says...
...mastered the brave face? Ted Kennedy was 12 when he first attended a sibling's funeral. By age 36, he was the last of the four Kennedy brothers still standing. He has endured an awesome catalog of trials, humiliations, griefs, terrors and mortifications--always in public, always with his chin...
...Chin Chin belongs to a burgeoning homegrown relief effort which is capturing Burmese from all walks of life. Students and shopkeepers, medics and models - thousands of people have now donated money, food or services to Nargis victims. Hundreds like Chin Chin are delivering aid themselves, while privately run local charities are reorienting their operations around cyclone relief...
Meanwhile, foreigners - including aid workers, diplomats and undercover journalists - trying to enter the delta have been turned back at police checkpoints. Burmese citizens who have traveled down to the stricken Irrawaddy delta to distribute aid are aghast. "If our government really sympathized with these people," says travel agent Chin Chin, who traveled down to deliver aid herself, "it would be helping them more effectively...
...true sentiment of the country cannot be masked by propaganda. If you want to gauge the support for Burma's military leaders, just ask anyone who has seen their neglect of the cyclone's victims. "We have hated our government for 20 years," says travel agent Chin Chin, as she prepares for a second relief trip. "Now we hate them more...