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...House or petition local representatives. It has also convinced MTV to include games in all its campaigns. "No other media enables you to literally run in someone's shoes," says Stephen Friedman, general manager of the music network. (See Techland's list of the best video games of the past decade...
...Unies in her Brief History [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. It is nice to see people taking note of the efforts being put into finding an appropriate way to refer to the 2000s. The "unification of the Unies" is also a great phrase to describe what happened during the past 10 years, as we saw the world become a smaller place. We saw the rise of Twitter, blogs, Facebook, MySpace and Wikipedia. We have more ways to communicate. During this decade, we became more unified...
...Serrano estimates it took seven months, about 100 viewings and 30 rejected offers before he succeeded this past fall in purchasing a home. "Every time I put in a bid that I thought was reasonable, they wouldn't call back," he says. Serrano, a project manager for a demolition company, finally bought a foreclosed three-bedroom, two-bath house for $150,000 - more than $40,000 above the list price...
Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history. Slaves are those forced to perform services for no pay beyond subsistence and for the profit of others who hold them through fraud and violence. While most are held in debt bondage in the poorest regions of South Asia, some are trafficked in the midst of thriving development. Such is the case here in Africa's wealthiest country, the host of this year's World Cup. While South Africa invests billions to prepare...
...past two years, an anonymous critic has been making DGF sightings her mission, posting to this mock fan blog under the charged pseudonym Grimke, taken from the 19th-century intellectual Angelina Weld Grimke...