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Once you hand over your log-in details and click Commit, the program will methodically delete your info - Twitter tweets, MySpace contacts, Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections - much like users could do manually. What remains is a brittle cyberskeleton: a profile with no data. Users seem to love it. Testimonials range from joyous farewells ("Goodbye, cruel world!") to good-riddance denouements ("Thank you, microblogging. You are, in fact, totally useless"). Suicide Machine is so popular that thousands of people are waiting their turn for their own cyberoffing. "Our server is so busy handling the requests," says Suicide Machine co-creator Walter...
Demographic shifts may also play a part. For a growing number of people in a continent grappling with how to assimilate migrants, the gay community can seem less threatening than recent arrivals from the Muslim world. "It's creepy," says Rayside of the University of Toronto, "but sexual minorities are seen as a safer and more respectable minority because they know what 'Britishness' or 'Dutchness' is." A 2008 poll, for example, found that while only 27% of Dutch voters would approve of a Muslim Prime Minister, 78% would approve of a homosexual in the same role. (See pictures of Muslims...
...first sentence of the first column we worked on together. But even though we both have Skype, we haven't used it once. In fact, even though Skype is the only one of all the cool gadgets that cartoons promised me would exist by 2010, people don't seem nearly as excited as they should be. Only 34% of Skype calls even use video. And when Skype announced on Jan. 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show that we'll soon have videophones on our televisions, everyone went right back to talking about which booths gave out the best key-chain...
Beth and Brent Fite, of Redlands, Calif., prequalified in May for a $300,000 loan. After six months, they had three offers rejected. "They say it's been a buyer's market, but it really doesn't seem like it," says Beth, an administrative assistant for the city of Corona. At the end of the summer, the couple found the home of their dreams - a three-bedroom, two-bath house perfect for raising a family. They bid $25,000 above the asking price but were passed over for a cash offer...
...formally charged, Ratzon faces a maximum 16-year prison term for each of the slavery and rape charges. Through his lawyer, Ratzon denied the allegations. After so many years of inaction, the police seem confident they can prove his guilt. "We have managed to gather a great deal of evidence relating to the offenses of holding people under conditions of enslavement and rape," deputy commander Shlomi Michael, head of the Tel Aviv police's Central Unit, told reporters...