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...sites included: Barackobama.com, smikrkingchimp.com and crooksandliars.com. Check. The same exercise on the other side of the aisle surfaced sites such as townhall.com and JohnMcCain.com. Satisfied that the system works, I probed deeper to see if I could tell different political affiliations based on what users do online - where they shop, how they play and their brand preferences. Some of the answers were intuitive, some counter...
...trump Abdullah. All he hopes for is to lower the PM's margin of victory. But if Kepala Batas entrepreneurs like Lee Peir Jye are any indication, Abdullah has little need for concern. "It doesn't matter if it's Abdullah or someone else," says the mobile phone-shop owner. "As long as we support the government, there will be stability, and that's good for business." Not a ringing hometown endorsement, but it's all Malaysia's accidental Prime Minister needs...
...This group of potential “animal voters” is news-savvy, socially integrated, and politically active. These are the suburban soccer moms who buy free range meat at Whole Foods, cosmetics not tested on animals from the Body Shop, and who quietly shun Ringling Bros’ animal circus when it comes to town. They’re also the people who sent over 300,000 e-mails to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last July successfully urging him to drop convicted dog fighter Michael Vick from the league. They’re politically active, and willing...
...time, told me after the church service. His wife Kim joined us and said Bob had been a salaried worker at AK Steel, "and the union was a big problem there. They worked at not working." Eventually there was a lockout-and AK Steel reorganized itself as a nonunion shop. "They're making big profits now," Bob said. "You wonder why there can't be some middle ground" between the old-fashioned, inflexible unions and "the ceos selling out these companies, shipping jobs overseas...
...Before the refugees, the population here had lots of problems," the deputy mayor of the town confessed to a group of visiting aid workers and donor representatives. Now, several international aid agencies have set up shop in the town to look after 2,500 Sudanese living in a camp nearby. And, with the aid workers have come some jobs, and a few more trucks carrying food and the odd crate of beer. Civilians who had fled miles into the bush, either escaping conflict or searching for diamonds, have started returning, many hungry and severely malnourished...