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...backlash is well under way. David Diggs, a junior at Michigan State University who has some 300 Facebook friends, complains, "It's annoying to get about 70 invitations a day about taking some kind of quiz or adding an application." Diggs is one of more than a million people who have joined a Facebook group that is petitioning to ban the inviting of friends on applications. (Ironically, the group encourages members to invite their friends to join the cause.) In February, Facebook responded to users' outcries by allowing people to block application invitations individually, but petitioners are demanding the ability...
Here's a quick quiz: what's the world's No. 1 killer? It's not AIDS, TB or malaria. The world's deadliest disease is heart disease, which kills nearly 18 million people a year. Once considered predominantly an affliction of the wealthy, the prevalence of heart disease has been growing in the developing world - 80% of heart-disease deaths now occur in low- and middle-income countries, which has got global health workers and epidemiologists considering better ways to screen, track and treat the illness...
...quiz: name the most important issue for voters in the recent Pakistani elections. Was it the increase in terrorist attacks over the past year? President Pervez Musharraf's heavy-handed sacking of the country's top judges? Or the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
...Despite the absence of “yes,” the couple marks their 12th wedding anniversary today, on Valentine’s—so FM decided to help them celebrate in an appropriately Harvard way: with a quiz...
...event was preceded earlier in the day by a game of “Final Status Taboo” held outside the Science Center. In the style of the popular quiz game Taboo, visitors were given cards with subjects such as Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, along with five taboo words underneath that could not be used to describe the subject...