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...born MoveOn.org which now has 3.2 million members. Most of the bloggers who have become Netroots leaders can trace their influence back only a couple of years, to 2003 and '04, when the growth of partisan liberal online activism was spurred by a strain of antiwar, anti-Bush fervor and frustration with congressional Democrats for not standing up to the President. Blogs like Daily Kos and MyDD grew rapidly. Today their combined readership (more than a million people weekly) dwarfs that of the dead-tree versions of established purveyors of liberal thought like the New Republic, which has a print...
...Banner." A group of young louts in an RV get Borat almost as drunk as they spout their beery misogyny. And there's an eerie scene in a revival tent where he accepts Christ as his Savoir and babbles in tongues. As if honoring the intensity of the believers' fervor, Baron Cohen does not act up - he goes with the holy-water flow...
...What's open to debate is whether all this amounts to a crisis. But instead of measured debate, what people are hearing is a chorus of obesity alarmism. There's another side to the obesity story. Argued with varying degrees of fervor by epidemiologists, skeptics and sundry others, it points out the arbitrary nature of the BMI classifications, throws doubt on attempts to link high BMI and premature death, asks who stands to gain from the fanning of obesity fears, and questions the value of hounding populations to lose weight. "In general, we just don't know what the long...
There may not be much they can do about it. Across the country, Christians are worshipping with a fervor once unimaginable in a communist society. Take the service held at 10 o'clock on a recent Sunday morning in China's booming southern city of Shenzhen. Some 40 people are crowded into the living room of a small two-bedroom apartment. The regulars call the place the Home of Love, and like the majority of Chinese Christians, they worship in private because they can't--or won't--register with the government-controlled official Protestant Church, the so-called Three...
...every night that you see novelists treated like rock stars. But for two performances at New York's Radio City Music Hall this week, a capacity crowd of 6,000 greeted Stephen King, John Irving and J. K. Rowling with the sort of fervor normally reserved for heroes of pop culture. The three writers gave readings from their works - and then took questions - in a benefit for Doctors Without Borders and Haven, a charity that King established that aids artists and writers who need medical assistance...