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...Facebook face-off ended peacefully early Friday morning. The protested "News Feed" on the social networking site, which allowed users to track their friends' activities, now has an off-switch. By adjusting their privacy settings, users can limit or block friends from seeing their Facebook movements. The curious can still check their friends' profiles for updates, but they now have to do so manually...
...that's what upsets students. It's one thing to casually check out a friend's updated profile between classes. It's another to be unwillingly inundated with each friend's latest Facebook antics. The News Feed does not have an off switch, although users can block or limit non-friends from seeing their profiles, which feed directly into the News Feed. At the very least, the aggrieved students want the option of a News Feed off-switch. Some want Facebook to do away with it completely...
...need a really big boost?and once you've made sure you won't be tested ... The first dose I bought lasted me six months. The last one, two days ... I regret becoming addicted, but not doping. It's a price top athletes pay to go to the limit ... Now, I don't know what I am, or where I'm going.'" Read more at timearchive.com...
...Here at home, I call on Democrats to join with me in building an alternative energy strategy to limit our dependence on foreign oil. Everything is on the table, including a tax on carbon-based fuels. Finally, to achieve stability in Baghdad during the creation of the new governing coalition, I am temporarily sending two divisions-30,000 more troops-to pacify that troubled city. If a stable, moderate, inclusive Iraqi government is not created, we may be forced to reassess our military posture in the region. These initiatives may not succeed. But the time for fancy words and grand...
...would go a step further and ask, Who needs small private schools? While Gibbs and Thornburgh maintain that "small is beautiful," they fail to acknowledge the prominence of America's public universities. The "If you are talented, the sky is the limit" mentality is most appropriate in a public university where students face a more real-world atmosphere of independence and hard work, without a doting dean serving as a third parent. And success has been proved: the majority of the FORTUNE 50 CEOs hail not from the Ivies or small private colleges but from our public universities. KEVIN JAMES...