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...siege of Mumbai, but its failures - to heed early warnings or secure the city's borders - were just as galling. So perhaps it was with a villager's stubborn pride that I thought Mumbai, a high-octane, rough-and-tumble metropolis, would become a kinder, gentler and altogether better place to live and work in the wake of 11/26. (See pictures of the first two days of attacks in Mumbai...
FarmVille is the most popular game on Facebook--65 million unique monthly players and growing. It is also the furthest place imaginable from the seedy underbelly of the Internet. It's a hamlet where the sun always shines, crops always grow and your friends drop by to do chores accompanied by plinky guitar music. Its astonishing popularity is a testament to the potential of gaming on social networks. Social games promise the golden pork-chop combo of the addictiveness of computer games with the communality of Facebook and MySpace. And they generate some of their revenue from product come...
...city and state officials; when the CIA hosted a dinner in Dearborn recently, he sat at the head table with Director Leon Panetta. Mardini invites non-Muslims to drop by and observe prayers and holds interfaith discussions in his office. His mosque doesn't even look out of place among the suburban homes along Outer Drive: the building used to be a Bible church...
...congressional seat in 2007. The good name he has painstakingly built for himself would be tainted, if not lost, as soon as he entered that lion's den. Instead, he could use his popularity to unify divided Filipinos, especially during election time. Such an act would boost his place in Philippine history more than any public office there could...
...cream. She and her husband are warm and adventurous, but they were both therapists, so Laszlo would have to pretend to care about all kinds of pointless conversations that end in tears and, I'm sure, more ice cream. Also, they plan to spend half the year at their place in Florida, which would be fine if they balanced that with the rest of the year at the World Economic Forum...