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...they deem hotter. “There are all these groups on Facebook like ‘The Hottest Freshman Girls’ and we wanted to democratize that process,” Wallace says. Wallace started the Web site with Hudson W. Harr, a friend from University of Florida using software from Ning.com, which allows designers to create online “face-off” voting games. Although MissFacebook.com has only been up since the beginning of October, it has already drawn over 45,000 page views, Wallace says, and caused a small stir. When Wallace was suspended...
Earlier this year, for the eighth or so time in my life, I spent a week of spring training in Florida, where I saw my favorite team: the Atlanta Braves. At spring training, everyone’s in shades, and everyone’s all smiles. And then there are the smells. You won’t catch a whiff of cocoa butter or grapeseed oil here: the most pervasive scent at the ballpark, among a whole menu of them—grilling dogs, gasoline, freshly cut grass—is the one that wafts from industrial-size helpings...
...Americans Suffering Diversity Fatigue? People are willing to be tolerant, but only to a certain point. And from California to the Midwest and Florida, signs of exclusionary thinking are popping up all over...
...most overlooked factor in the decline of married households is the contribution our elderly make to this trend. We used to keep our grandparents at home, in the spare room, but now they prefer the weather in Florida and the 24-hour care of retirement homes. When one elderly spouse outlives the other, America gets another "single-person household." There are now 10.5 million people, over age 65, living alone - one-tenth of all households. Thus, the 55 million married households become a smaller part of the whole...
...within his own party: Democrats hope to blast their way to a majority this fall by tagging Republicans as cultivators of a "culture of corruption" with some high-profile cases, including former representatives Tom DeLay of Texas, Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California and sex-scandal plagued Mark Foley of Florida to use as fodder. Jefferson could be the Dems' Achilles' heel in this morality play, and it's no secret that the party leadership, who stripped him of his influential seat on the House Ways and Means Committee, want...