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Such identity protection is the cornerstone of public networks like LinkedIn, which operates much as Friendster does; most people join by invitation, in turn inviting their friends (and so on). The personal information of everyone but your direct contact remains hidden. Todd Defren of SHIFT Communications, a p.r. firm, has used this social pyramid to close $200,000 worth of new business. Instead of the usual 3% response rate he gets from direct-marketing calls, Defren has elicited a beefy 50% rate courtesy of LinkedIn's referenced referrals. But Defren is careful not to ask for too many favors...
...sense of patriotism toward France." Muslim leaders demonstrated that patriotism by taking a leading role in the effort to free the hostages. After months of battling the French government over the head-scarf ban, officials from the main Islamic organizations in France were dispatched to Baghdad to attempt to contact the insurgents and negotiate a release. President Jacques Chirac launched an all-out diplomatic push too, sending Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on a whirlwind tour of Arab capitals. King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Qatar Foreign Minister called on the Iraqi Islamic Army - which is believed to have abducted...
...ridiculous premise. A transpacific flight crashes on a remote island, leaving a few dozen survivors of a type that suggests that the best protection against a 30,000-ft. drop is good hair and low body fat. The plane was a thousand miles off course and out of radio contact--the survivors are stranded. But not alone: at night the jungle chatters with the sounds of unseen, hungry and possibly supernatural creatures. Gilligan, meet Mulder and Scully...
...exes who find it impossible to get along, some psychologists suggest "parallel parenting." That means each household has its own set of rules, and the parents have a minimum of contact and communication. Richard Warshak, author of Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex, estimates more than half of divorced parents sharing custody follow this path...
...three days after the planes fell from the sky, the Kremlin seemed to be in denial about the cause. Two aircraft left Tuesday night from the same Moscow airport, and dropped off the radar screens within 60 seconds of each other. At 10.53 p.m. traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 1047, a Siberia Airlines flight from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A minute later, Volga-Aviaexpress Flight 1303 from Moscow to Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature...