Word: misa
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...accordingly. Today, there are a million titles in Maho i-Rando's online library - one for every six members, who are mostly women in their teens and 20s. That represents a lot of phone time. "Young Japanese access the Internet more from their cell phones than their PCs," says Misa Matsuda, a professor of literature and sociology at Tokyo's Chuo University. "Cell phones occupy pockets of spare time in people's daily lives - especially for exchanging nonurgent e-mails, playing games, visiting fortune-telling sites. Keitai shosetsu fit in that tradition...
...many of the 115,000 Samoans who live on the main island of Upolu, Robert Louis Stevenson is still very much alive. From his office on the sixth floor of the Central Bank of Samoa building, Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telefoni points out the window to Tusitala's mountain tomb: "See, it's up under those trees - right on top. That's an indication of how much the Samoans cared for him, because they had to hack the road up there and carry his heavy coffin." Telefoni's memory of Tusitala, or "Writer of Tales," as he was known locally...
...Diddy's kiddies are eating into his Cristal budget. The hip-hop mogul, also known as SEAN COMBS, is appealing a judge's August order to pay $35,000 a month to Misa Hylton-Brim, the mother of one of his two sons, Justin, 10. Combs has been paying $5,000 a month to Hylton-Brim, plus covering Justin's schooling, medical and other expenses, Combs' publicist said. "It's not about child support," Combs told the Associated Press last week. "It's about adult support." Or maybe the little guy just needs his very own Bentley...
...honorarium that the Lyons Award carries will be split between Chavunduka’s children and the Zimbabwe Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), which campaigns for press freedom in Zimbabwe...