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...toward him, it was Mister Rogers' effect on grownups that's especially astounding. A few years ago, when I brought my then 25-year-old boyfriend home for Christmas, we went to church on the Christmas Eve, and looking around at the candle-lit sanctuary, he suddenly poked his index finger into my side. "Ow!" I stage-whispered. "What're you doing?" "Look," he said, pointing behind the pew to a man seated two rows ahead. "It's Mister Rogers!" His glee was unmistakable, and after the service, he did his best imitation of nonchalance, trying to get a better...
...pizza, where the San Diego Bluegrass Club held its monthly meetings. Inspired by her fellow banjo fanatics, Brown began to play more and more often, jamming in parking lots. She even mastered the difficult three-finger style of her first inspiration, Earl Scruggs, using metal picks on the index and middle fingers and a plastic thumb pick for a unique sound...
...that have taken off in the last couple of years. Pyra's Blogger site alone has 1 million subscribers and 200,000 active bloggers whom Nick Denton, founder of the U.K. Web news aggregator Moreover, sees as a rich source of news and info. Google, he predicts, will index blogs in real time alongside its news search engine, Google News. "It makes a lot of sense for them," says Denton. But Google already indexes blogs and doesn't need to buy them to do so in real time, says Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com. Instead they're evolving...
...poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the philologist Al-Khalili bin Ahmed al-Farahidi and of "martyrs" from earlier battles. The most poignant of Iraq's countless memorials is on the corniche along the Shatt al Arab: 100 bronze statues of war heroes, each pointing an accusing index finger in the direction of the old enemy, Iran...
Corporations in the U.K. have become grimly familiar with watching stock markets go down, then down some more. London's FTSE 100 index has fallen about 48% from its all-time high at the end of 1999 - and about 9% just in the first month of 2003. Obviously, the most painful dip for any company is one in its own share price. But when market bears roam as widely and fiercely as they have for nearly three years, they can harm even firms whose own shares are doing well. Why? Because in the U.K. almost half the work force subscribes...