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...sites makes it difficult to monitor misuse, both for law-enforcement officials and site administrators. Sparapani estimates that Facebook users spend 18 billion minutes on the site each day. "We have 400 million active users and a tiny, tiny staff. We need to find novel ways to handle that kind of crushing amount of activity. It's the burden of being so immensely popular," he says. Richard Allan, the Dublin-based director of policy for Facebook Europe, says an open dialogue between social-networking sites and police is key to stopping abuse. "The Ministry of Justice brought to our attention...
...thought she'd be a professor of art history, until she took a detour into film: "I realized that the great opportunity in film was that it was kind of a populist medium that could cross all class and cultural lines." She made The Loveless (1982) - hailed as "the thinking man's biker movie" - then went to Los Angeles to teach a course on B filmmakers of the '40s and '50s. She's been bending genres in Hollywood ever since. (See the best movies of the decade...
That, in turn, could go a long way toward the change in the Haitian mind-set that has to take place before any kind of prosthetic boom can take off. "This has to be about Haitians helping Haitians," says Dr. Henri Ford, a Haitian American and chief surgeon at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, who is also an earthquake volunteer in Haiti. "Amputees are too often told in Haiti, 'You are a burden to society and to your family - people do not have the time for you.'" Before he performs an amputation there, Ford says, patients often shout...
...feed themselves, the soldiers aimed for macaws with their slingshots. They killed borugos, a kind of Amazon rodent that looks like a cross between a squirrel and a rat and is a popular source of jungle protein. They also bagged monkeys, which they would stew for hours before braising over a fire in an attempt to cook away the gamey taste. But the meat was stringy and tough and as they gnawed on the primates' tiny arms and legs, some of the soldiers felt like they were eating their young. Others couldn't keep anything down. Now, drifting...
...petty cash, but now he was stuffing his uniform pockets with thick wads of currency. It wasn't easy because his whole body quaked with the snap realization that he, Walter Suárez, a $44-a-week anonymous soldier condemned to a mission impossible, had just won a kind of ad hoc lottery...