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...building its community of reviewers, Yelp is hoping for a MySpace-like allegiance to the site's content and personalities. There's also the $15 billion that companies spend annually on local Yellow Page ads nationally to motivate their efforts. "Most local businesses--whether veterinarians, massage parlors, spas or restaurants--aren't buying Google key-words," says Peter Fenton, a partner at Benchmark Capital, which this month sank $10 million into Yelp...
DIED. Gerry Studds, 69, former Democratic Representative from Massachusetts and the first openly gay member of Congress, whom the House censured in 1983 for having had an affair with a 17-year-old male page; of complications from a blood clot in his lung; in Boston. After surviving the sex scandal, Studds was elected to several more terms, and in 1996 Congress named a national marine sanctuary after him in recognition of his environmental work...
Credit-card companies are constantly adjusting their rates, penalties and fees, and understanding all the ways they ding you requires ever more diligence. Disclosures now run 20 pages on average, up from one page a decade ago. And though late fees are hardly new, since the mid-'90s they have tripled, to about $30 on average--commonly going as high as $39. "Sure, they send you notification," says Adam Levin, founder of Credit.com a consumer-education website. "But your eyes just glaze over...
...offered the German foreign-intelligence agency BND the chance to put written questions to their prisoner. The intelligence report doesn't make clear whether CIA interrogators had direct physical access to Zammar. In June 2002, Syrian officials offered German interrogators access to Zammar in prison, according to the 263-page report by the BND, marked "Geheim" (Secret). That same day, the BND chief asked Germany's federal prosecutors to drop their charges against Syrian intelligence agents who had been arrested in Germany for allegedly collecting information on Syrian dissidents...
...terror camp in Afghanistan. "I was ready to accept a 10-, 20-year sentence, and say anything, just to get to another place," he tells Grey in the book. After nearly a year in captivity, Arar was released and flew home to his family in Canada. A 1,200-page Canadian government report last month absolved him of any suspicion. Arar sued the U.S. government, but a New York federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that the case could not be heard for security reasons; Arar is now appealing that ruling. Last month's report by a Canadian...