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...While social networking has brought together long-lost friends and rekindled many an old flame, Facebook has evolved to fill yet another role - an outlet for grieving. People the world over can post messages, photos and videos, and specialized sites offer interactive forums in which the bereft can chat with therapists and with one another. Calmly and quietly, the Web has put grievers in touch with all sorts of people who can help support them through the pain...
...Heidi Horsley, an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, started the nonprofit Open to Hope and The Grief Blog to connect those who have experienced loss and to provide expert as well as peer-to-peer resources to help with the grieving process. The Open to Hope Foundation recently expanded its online channels to include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. "People initially come to blog on the site as strangers, and they start to get to know each other," she says. "They form strong friendships based on their experiences and become part of a virtual Internet family...
...daffy, almost heroic, dead seriousness. Which is to say it's one megabudget Hollywood epic that feels as if it was made by a human, not assembled by cyborgs. Maybe some of the folks paying inflated prices for the 3-D IMAXed Avatar are doing so out of social obligation to see what they've heard the rest of the world is seeing. But what they're getting is a personal vision. Not a religious experience; rather a mass hallucination - an elevated, persuasive fiction, a thing that can't be but is, right before our eyes. And that's what...
...fashion, people initially stood awkwardly in little clumps by alma mater, talking about how bad the economy was and how you, like, totally need to see Avatar. FlyBy joined the undergraduate clump and endured the regular firing round of questions (name, House, concentration). After idle small talk and some social lubrication, aided by the ridiculously long wine list and very reasonable drinking age of 19, the clumps started commingling. FlyBy felt immediately at home with the HCT because they, like this correspondent, were not that interested in American politics. Great...
...have been saying for months. "For the Ashura ceremony, despite numerous calls to do so, neither Mehdi Karroubi, Mohammad Khatami [the two other main leaders of the opposition] nor I or my associates issued statements," he wrote. "Once more, the god-seeking people showed themselves to be a broad social and civil network which ... has taken shape spontaneously and does not wait for statements or announcements...