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...stand up to a regime willing to get tough. Such an alliance would also greatly expand the grass-roots organizational reach of ElBaradei's coalition, which has thus far been unable to set up regional campaign offices or raise funds in a closely controlled political system. "The national coalition doesn't need Tagamma or the Nasserists," says Joshua Stacher, an Egypt expert at Kent State University, referring to some of Egypt's established but largely inconsequential opposition parties. "They need the Brothers. You cannot have a movement pushing for political reform or change in Egypt without the Brothers on board...
Does all this sound familiar? The hyping of a previously unknown green that doesn't taste particularly strongly of anything? The testimonials to its cultural power? If so, you're probably thinking of arugula, whose cultural life cycle has already come and gone. Arugula, a salad green that looks kind of like lettuce, became so gentrified over the course of the past 20 years or so that Kamp used it in the title of his 2006 primer on how we became a gourmet nation: The United States of Arugula...
...Florida rose from 2,780 in 2006 to 3,317 in 2007, and then to 3,750 in 2008. The last figure is equivalent to about 10 reported deaths a day. That's more than the number of fatalities from street drugs like cocaine and heroin. It doesn't help that in Florida, you don't need to be a doctor to run a pain-management clinic, Lamberti says. "You need a background check to get a liquor license - you can't be a convicted felon and open up a bar - but you can be a convicted felon and open...
...without asking the non-users' permission, and they're storing this data in the U.S.," says Johannes Caspar, a data-protection officer in Hamburg, home to the German office of Facebook. "Facebook is able to create profiles of non-users - that's in breach of German privacy law and doesn't meet international privacy standards," he says. Moreover, Caspar claims that Facebook's privacy guidelines are so complicated that many users don't understand them and aren't aware of the consequences when they enter their personal data into the platform. (See the top 10 people caught on Facebook...
...about helping their country recover. But Greece hasn't said yet whether it will ask for the promised money - it still wants to try to borrow from the markets and will watch to see if the pledge is enough to calm investors and bring down interest rates. If that doesn't happen in the next few days, however, officials quietly admit that Greece may have to put out a begging bowl to Europe. (Read "Greek Bailout: Savior for Euro or Temporary...