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...usually uttered in jest, the statement “it’s not real until it’s on Facebook” increasingly offers an accurate description of reality. Solidified in the digital universe, a committed relationship status serves as an explicit pledge of fidelity and a safeguard against unwanted come-ons. The relief of seeing those words in plain text promises to end the agonizing guessing game by confirming, beyond doubt, that the other person feels the same way. For some people, this declaration can become decidedly too real: Take the extreme example of the London resident...
...Guardian News and Media Division lost $52 million on turnover of $520 million and figures for the year ending March 2009 are likely to be substantially worse when they are released in the summer. (Fortunately, the Guardian is owned by the nonprofit Scott Trust, whose purpose is to safeguard it from the chill wind of the market.) Like other online newspapers, the Guardian has yet to figure out how to monetize its millions of visitors - in other words, how to make a buck off them. According to calculations made by Digital Deliverance's Crosbie, it takes 16 online readers...
...remain in power for a long time. But unlike Castro, he's likely to do so on the basis of a democratic mandate, as his decisive win in Sunday's referendum suggested. Many poor Venezuelans see his Bolivarian revolution, despite its polarizing effects on the country, as a safeguard against the looming economic pain of falling oil prices. Analysts like John Walsh, a senior associate at the independent Washington Office on Latin America, may worry that indefinite re-election would allow Chávez to accumulate excessive power, but Walsh credits Chávez with actually "restoring a modicum...
...shirt, the socialist firebrand shouted: "Today we opened wide the gates of the future!" Chávez may well have opened another kind of gate. For much of the latter half of the 20th century, it was the norm in Latin America to limit presidents to one term, a safeguard against the lifetime rule so many caudillos had set up for themselves in the past. As democracy gained a stronger foothold on the continent, many countries voted to allow their leaders a second stint in office. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...second and constitutionally final term ends next year, are pushing for an amendment that would let him run again. Just as Chavistas insist Chávez is the only man who can carry through the sweeping populist reforms he began a decade ago, many Colombians feel only Uribe can safeguard the economic revival and improved security he's brought to South America's most war-torn country. Uribe so far has played it coy, neither declaring he wants another term nor denying it. Pundits say they'd be shocked if, after watching Chávez gain the opportunity, he doesn...