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...mainstream media regards blogs as sources now, because they leverage the power of thousands of people close to the news. And, because of technological reasons that are too long to explain here, when acting in unison, bloggers can definitively bring an issue into the public forum, because their frequent updates and plentiful hyperlinks to information sources and to other blogs make them influential sites for search engines. Using a technique called “googlebombing,” concerted bloggers have successfully elevated chosen websites to the top of the Google search results page for chosen search words...
...articles from Arabic language newspapers that are otherwise little regarded in the mainstream media. Steve McLaughlin’s Saltire blog offers links to the best business and technology stories on the net. Virginia Postrel’s The Scene has made the author and speaker, who is a frequent critic of irrational economic policy like the Bush steel tariffs, one of the most influential libertarians in the country. At Harvard, biology postdoc Charles Murtaugh runs a blog offering conservative viewpoints on developments ranging from science to politics to culture. And Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University...
Likewise, almost twice as many women at co-ed colleges reported frequently binge drinking than students at all-women’s colleges, but frequent binge drinking rates are rising faster at the all-women’s schools...
Another distinct trend noted by the report is a polarization of students since 1993—more student are either abstaining completely from alcohol or frequently binge drinking. Each category increased by about one-fifth, with abstainers increasing from 16.4 percent to 19.3 percent and frequent binge drinkers increasing from 19.7 to 22.8 percent of the college population...
Half of Harvard undergraduates surveyed by The Crimson in January 2001 reported drinking enough to be classified as binge drinkers, while one-fifth said they abstained from drinking. One-quarter of Harvard’s binge drinkers met Wechsler’s threshold for frequent binge drinking, according to The Crimson survey...