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This week, Picnik became the latest high-flying start-up to join the Google team. The popular photo-editing site has 17 million unique monthly visitors and traffic growth of 10% a month. Picnik simplifies the process of cropping, editing and adding special effects to photos stored on your computer or on sites such as Flickr, Picasa or Facebook...
...pitched a story to my editors at Playboy to do a piece on the bomb squad, and found myself in Baghdad eight months later. At some point while I was over there, it occurred to me that the insanity of the war was not being expressed in the popular media and that it could make a really eye-opening, gut-wrenching movie about the horrors of war to see the war through the eyes of these guys with this gutsy job on the front lines. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
...most quickly. But Avatar's now the No. 1 movie in Brazil, and Brazil has a lot of issues with the displacement of indigenous populations and deforestation. There's a tribe in India that is getting pushed off its sacred mountain for a bauxite mine. The film is hugely popular in China, and people there are getting displaced by the government to build dams. So people are relating to it from all these different perspectives. (See pictures of James Cameron's best special effects...
...Greece and the European Union rush to stop the Greek problem from spilling over into the rest of the EU, we urge them to take heed of popular sentiment and not shore up Greek debt with taxpayer money from Germany and France—the only two eurozone economies in a position to help. Doing so would constitute forcing a stronger political union on eurozone and, more broadly, EU member-countries where such a union does not exist and is not wanted by their citizens...
...than just the small step toward centralized fiscal policy that it may appear to be. It would also be a very large step toward political union—a goal that the EU must not reach too far for until it attains the approval to do so from the popular ballot on which its authority rests...