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...partner Astrid Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years later, and what at first seemed like a cliquey Tokyo phenomenon is now extending its reach as far afield as Shanghai, Vienna and Buenos Aires. One of the first cities to catch on was London. "We held our first two events in August last year," says Marcus Fairs, co-organizer of the London event and editor of Icon magazine. "Even though it was the middle...
...Facebook, are poised to have a growing role in November's election, and even more so by 2008. MySpace receives 58 million unique hits a month, most of which come from users ages 18 to 25. Since MySpace is free, it's an appealing way for a candidate to reach younger voters without risking any money on them. 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...
Later, the most famous patient of the war lay under a sheet, three of her limbs in bandages, and cried. It was not so much the pain but the feeling, the desolation, of being alone and helpless. She had never been alone. She had slept within reach of her baby sister. She was from a family where her mother would pull one of her teenage daughters into her lap and hold her just because it felt nice. Even after she had left home there had been Lori and Ruben...
...Medicare officials are furious with the report. Mark McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, fired off an angry memo to GAO after he read it, accusing the agency of using "inaccurate, incomplete and subjective methods" to reach its conclusions. McClellan complains that the congressional watchdog agency asked trick questions in some cases, which a call center employee couldn't be expected to answer. GAO stands by its questions and its conclusions...
...Socialist councilman in the small town of Zumarraga who has who has faced social rejection - even among his family and friends - for running with the Socialist Party and having to carry two bodyguards in the face of threats from the ETA. "I am betting on this process to reach a [positive] outcome. I hope it is now. I hope we don't have to wait 30 or 40 years for another chance...