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...Facebook has a format that makes it less easy for political candidates to participate. Yet with more than 8 million student members, Facebook is well aware of its potential. Beginning in September, political candidates and social cause organizations can buy advertising space on Facebook. "In TV and on the radio, broadcasters are required by law to offer politicians ad space at a low cost," says Melanie Deitch, director of marketing for Facebook. "Because Facebook is online, it's not required to discount ad space. But we want to provide a level playing field for all candidates and causes to reach...
Jessica remembers a foreboding, a feeling that the convoy was staggering into enemy country without purpose or direction. Two days into the mission, the convoy had dropped so far behind that it had lost radio contact with the rest of the column. One of the far-ahead convoys carried her boyfriend, Sergeant Ruben Contreras, who had promised he would look after her. The day they left Kuwait, his column had pulled out just ahead of hers--in plain view. Now he had vanished in the distance along with the rest...
...only person more vocal than Kolbe about his hatred of the penny is recent Berkeley biophysics Ph.D. Jeff Gore. Sensing the penny's sudden vulnerability, his group, Citizens for Retiring the Penny (basically also known as Jeff Gore), has been appearing all over news shows and talk radio. Based on a Walgreen's study that says pennies waste two or more seconds on every cash transaction, Gore estimates that we each lose several hours a year, at a cost of $10 billion in productivity. Using that calculation, Gore has lost $50 billion in productivity by talking about the penny...
Even before he wrote The Language of God, Collins was a player in this potentially consequential debate. He has an ongoing dialogue with Chuck Colson, the former Nixon aide who heads the successful Prison Fellowship and influences a significant conservative Christian audience through a daily radio show and a magazine column. Thus far Collins has failed to convince Colson, who says, "I think he's giving away more than he needs to, and he thinks I'm denying science." But Colson adds, "He's a guy I like, admire and appreciate. We're going to have dinner together...
...miles south of Baghdad, in a region littered with roadside bombs, before heading to Abeer's house. Some of them had been drinking, and all but one had changed out of their uniforms, allegedly to avoid easy identification. A fifth soldier, who remained at the checkpoint to monitor the radio, said that when the men returned in bloodied clothes, each of them told him not to speak of the incident again...