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...geography professor striving to get students to think globally, and I find your list to be disappointing. Tim Russert, Suze Orman, Miley Cyrus, etc., among the "most influential people in the world"? Really? The world is home to about 6.6 billion people, and Americans account for less than 5% of that total. John A. Alwin, FIRCREST, WASH...
...went nearly halfway round the globe to find someone who would substantiate the addition of George W. Bush to your list [May 12]. Bush has little worldwide credibility, and a record 70% of the American public no longer supports his policies. By what reasonable measure is he one of the world's 100 most influential people? Jeff Clark, CHURCHVILLE...
...answer that question, I turned to the Hitwise database and searched through the 4,700-plus sites for those that had visitors that matched my demographics. Having just reached 42, I wasn't surprised that MySpace and Facebook weren?t on top of the list for my age group; after all, I still haven't figured out the purpose or proper response to a Super Poke. Top of the list for a 34-44 year-old living in the suburbs with similar interests to me is the grown-up social network called gather.com, which is sort of like a slow...
...search terms driving traffic to the site. According to Hitwise, over the last four weeks, visitors to the site were searching for "pimento cheese spread," "bonsai trees" and Elliot Spitzer's wife "Silva Spitzer." While I do confess to a brief bonsai connection, the rest of the search term list leaves me cold. This is someone's niche, but not mine...
...prism of life in Victorian Whitechapel, using photographs, police files and press reports to bring the era to life. It also shows how the Ripper's 11 victims - all alcoholics who turned to prostitution - were brought down by slum life before falling prey to a murderer. A police list of Catherine Eddowes' clothing and possessions is both mundane and poignant: A gray petticoat, "a very old ragged blue skirt," and a pair of men's lace-up boots...