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Some people amuse themselves with books and magazines, in-flight movies or a few hours of shut-eye, while making the transcontinental trip from San Francisco to Boston. Crammed into my coach-class seat I'm entertaining myself as only a true data geek can - by perusing a massive spreadsheet containing Internet users' unique searches for each of the front-running presidential candidates. United Airlines, you may keep your complimentary headset, thank you. I have no interest in watching John Travolta in drag in Hairspray (who picks these movies?) when someone in the Hitwise sample has searched for "Rudy Giuliani...
...created my flight-time diversion by downloading a list of all the Web searches from our U.S. sample over the last four weeks that contained a presidential candidate's name. Take Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton: While there are multiple searches on Hillary's stance on the issues - health care, specifically - along with various scandal-related searches, it appears as though several Internet users are fascinated with "Hillary Clinton's casserole," "Hillary Clinton recipes," and "Hillary's hairstyle." Maybe Clinton will do well in the Leave it to Beaver belt after...
...Condemnation of Zoe's Ark for trying to sneak the children out of Africa and into the care of French families has been almost universal - including by Sarkozy. But French human rights and civil liberties groups objected to the jailing of the journalists and flight crews - workers, their defenders had argued, who'd only been doing their jobs without playing an active role in the scheme to hustle the children out of Chad. Their release therefore drew cheers in Europe but a surge of protest in Chad, where some believe the white suspects in the case are being given deferential...
...recent road trip through the mountains of northern Iraq along the Turkish border, it was easier to find Turkish soldiers than Kurdish rebels. The Turkish army maintains at least four bases inside northern Iraq as a result of an agreement with Saddam Hussein after the American no-flight zone created a power vacuum in the region during the 1990s. In the town of Barmani, the Turks have a base with 35 tanks, and are repairing a disused air strip and building up troop levels, according to Iraqi Kurdish intelligence officers. But this is no invasion: The Turks supply...
...Kelley’s view is that improvements in education can cure nearly all of Cambridge’s ills, from middle class flight to crime and juvenile delinquency. But the promise is not being fulfilled, he claims...