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...founders, is its sense of community. "The blogosphere hasn't given people an effective outlet for publishing this kind of story," Thompson says, "because unless you're really savvy, you're actually just jettisoning your stories into space. FieldReport brings readers together in one place, and allows them to search by content, instead of scavenging through the wilderness...
...Google search, for instance, turns up plenty of blog references to Palin's claim that she could see Russia "from [her] house" as her way of saying that being governor of Alaska is a foreign policy credential. The only problem: Real Sarah Palin never said it. Fey did, spoofing Palin's argument that one can see Russia from Alaskan territory. But who can remember those details? If Real You gets in an argument with Public You, Public You wins every time...
...Tsien, who won first prize in the national Westinghouse talent search at the age of 16, entered the Ivy gates as a freshman set on devoting his studies to the hard sciences...
John D. Gartner chose wisely. It's hard to think of someone whose life has provided more fodder for a psychological biography than former President Bill Clinton. Gartner, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, and author of In Search of Bill Clinton talks to TIME about Clinton's manic tendencies, his power over crowds, and why the Monica affair was a true love story...
...There's a reason for the officers' light touch. For years, British policing has been restrained by the 1981 abolition of the "Sus Law" that had allowed police to stop and search citizens simply on suspicion of criminal intent. "Sus" sparked riots in several British cities, amid charges that it sanctioned racist harassment of young black men. But a surge of youth violence - violent offenses by perpetrators aged under 18 rose 37% in three years to 2006 - has prompted the government to once again beef up the discretionary powers of cops on the street. "Dispersal orders," for example, allow officers...