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Injecting politics into popular entertainment is never an easy task. London's West End these days is dominated by splashy musicals like Disney's Lion King and the Abba-inspired Mamma Mia, not challenging dramas by George Bernard Shaw or Arthur Miller. But ever since the invasion of Iraq, the political temperature has been rising on the London stage...
...Message boards, a communication tool that predates the modern Internet and Web 1.0, were popular amongst geeks and early adopters as early as the late 1980s when users would use their modems to connect directly into dial-up message boards. In the mid- to late 90s, message boards became popular forums for users to discuss publicly traded stocks...
...Yahoo! Message Boards is ranked as the 223rd most popular Internet site in the U.S. for the week ending July 14, 2007, according to Hitwise. It was also the 25th most popular Yahoo! Property during that same timeframe...
...fact that soft news is far more popular than hard news was a relatively unconfirmed discovery prior to the survey, Patterson said. Each respondent was asked a few questions about current events at the time of their response; on issues ranging from the British government’s planned withdrawal of troops from Iraq to the death of Anna Nicole Smith...
Various e-mails began circulating on House lists and the lists of student organizations at the beginning of this week, urging Harvard students to join groups on popular networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace in order to publicize Donna’s disappearance...