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...looking for love but think online dating is rather creepy, Friendster.com might allay your fears. The site enables you to meet prospective dates exclusively through your friends. It works on the six-degrees-of-separation principle: Jon invites you into his network, you invite your friends, they invite theirs, and so on. (Note: Friendster stops at four degrees.) The whole group can then peruse one another's profiles; no strangers allowed. With 268,000 members from San Francisco to South Korea and a weekly growth rate of 20%, Friendster has to work hard to keep up with demand. Currently still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: A Friendlier Way to Date Online | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...latest attacks took so many Muslim lives, provoking a backlash against al-Qaeda in the Arab world. Among the most troubling intercepts, these sources say, are chats al-Qaeda agents hiding in Iran have had with cohorts scattered around the globe. This indicates, they say, that some of the network's leaders are still active in Iran. One of them, according to a U.S. official, is Abu Mousab al Zarqawi, chief of al-Qaeda's ally Ansar al-Islam. His alleged presence in northern Iraq was cited by Bush as evidence of a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Led To Orange | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

More importantly, the College had enlisted a national network of alumni and recruiters to seek out not only the nation’s best scholars, but its athletes, musicians, and artists as well...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Focus on Athletics | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...didn’t have a network to plug into,” she says...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Late Starter’ Writes On Telecommunications, Famous Women | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...commenting on the merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques says, "Rich and powerful people have been detained. It makes me proud to be a lawyer." Pedroso's was one of several high-profile arrests after an interminable, eight-month police investigation into a pedophile network operating in state-run children's homes known as Casa Pia. Also placed in preventive detention was Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to South Africa, along with a doctor, a lawyer and a TV anchorman. The arrests came after police used controversial powers to tap the cellular phones of prominent opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Late than Never | 5/28/2003 | See Source »

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