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...campaign commodity, however controversial. Almost every major candidate, from Hillary Clinton to John McCain and Mitt Romney, has hired well-known Web voices to help the candidates tap into the vast fund-raising, organization and communication potential of the Internet. That group is potentially huge: a Pew study of blogs during August 2006 found 4.8 million people blogging, commenting or otherwise sharing political content online...
Specifically, the West seems to be suffering from a bad case of myopia. A 2005 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Poll found that, in countries such as Britain, Germany, Spain, France, and Russia, China is viewed far more favorably than the United States. One can only conclude that a giant 4th of July organ harvest might do the trick in winning these nations’ approval...
...activities are increasingly popular with the 50-plus set, and there are far more folks in this age group online than there were just a few years ago. Among adults over 50, 54% use the Internet and 24% have a high-speed hookup, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That's up sharply from 38% and 5%, respectively...
Most of the action is among those 50 to 69. "There's a big drop-off after age 70 in the number who are connected," says Susannah Fox, associate editorial director at Pew. Still, she says, there has been significant growth among the most senior Americans, especially for things like getting health information and doing financial research...
...audacious as a movie full of penguins seemed, Hollywood animators had been putting wildlife through the hoops since the days of the Road Runner and Pep? Le Pew, just after World War II. Perhaps not coincidentally, artist Chuck Jones was a particular favorite of the young George Miliotis, growing up the son of Greek immigrants in the town of Chinchilla, Queensland. But when it came time for Miller to concoct his first purely animated feature half a century later, the greatest inspiration came not from Warner Bros. but from wildlife documentaries. Tickled by the fact that Antarctica's emperor penguins...