Word: launching
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...want to launch Smart Girls at the Party, your new Web series? -Elizabeth Chan, Chicago It's a talk show for young girls. We wanted to do something to show real, regular girls and what they're interested in. What better way to find that out than to ask them very serious, hard-hitting questions like "Which do you believe exist: unicorns or fairies...
...what exactly are these soccer execs thinking, kicking off a new women's league during a near-depression? To be fair, WPS announced this current launch date back in August of 2007, when the economy was relatively rosy. "That's life," says Kristine Lilly, a two-time Olympic champ who plays striker for the Boston Breakers (the WPS will also have teams in the Bay Area, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. A Philadelphia franchise will start next season). "When we made plans to start this league, we didn't think the economy was going...
...MySpace's thrown-together launch: Finally, on August 15, [2003,] they were ready to launch their bare-bones site. Like Friendster, MySpace allotted each user a profile page with pictures and interests and links to friends. It also had a mishmash of features, including horoscopes, games and blogging, then called journals. "We didn't know what it was going to be about," said MySpace staffer Jason Feffer...
...surprising Sarkozy's trip is inspiring as equal measures of hope and suspicion. The French president kicked off his three-nation swing through the Great Lakes region in Kinshasa, where he praised President Joseph Kabila for reaching agreement in January with leaders of neighboring Rwanda to launch joint military operations against militia groups fighting both regimes from strongholds in eastern Congo. The result, Sarkozy noted, has been an a halt to the massacres that have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. (See pictures of war and displacement in Congo...
Observers expect the two American reporters now being detained for "illegally intruding" into the North will become a pawn to be used by Pyongyang at an opportune political moment. And with Pyongyang's internationally unpopular missile-satellite launch in the pipeline, analysts would be surprised to see the duo return home in the coming days. Pyongyang might also want to send a clear signal to other journalists that it won't tolerate any lurking around its border...