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...common wisdom says Facebook's move is part of the cat-and-mouse game the world's most-popular social network is playing with Twitter, the world's most popular micromessaging service. That may be partly true, but I doubt Facebook is all that worried about weetle-ol' Twitter. No, something more important is afoot: Facebook is embracing the AfterWeb and blowing up the browser. It is unbundling its website-based business and allowing developers to turn Facebook into a bunch of discrete services that can be delivered over a variety of devices (from PCs to smartphones) far more easily...
...become more precious. As a just-released report by the Asia Society argues, water will become the key to regional security in the 21st century - and Asia isn't ready. "This is a fundamental resource that we need to survive," says Suzanne DiMaggio, director of the Asia Society's Social Issues Program and the report's director. "The emerging picture on water is very worrisome...
...grow by nearly 500 million people over the next 10 years - combined with climate change will likely mean that far more Asians will be tapping shrinking sources of water. Water wouldn't be a sole trigger for war but rather a "threat multiplier" - a factor that worsens the social instability that can lead to conflict. That can happen even inside a country - one of the most violent protests in recent Chinese history occurred in April 2005, when over 30,000 villagers in Zhejiang province clashed with police over water pollution from a local chemical plant...
...Americans hurried to beat the deadline for submitting their 1040 forms, demonstrators irked by what they consider high taxes and profligate government spending gathered in hundreds of locations. Sparked by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli's angry call for a Chicago Tea Party, the protests were organized on blogs and social-networking sites and backed by prominent Republicans...
...often the little things that change your life. For Joanne Goldblum, it was toilet paper. As a social worker in Connecticut, she kept noticing that the families she worked with didn't have any. Eventually a client told her that TP isn't covered by food stamps or any other government-assistance program, so people just improvise. (Fast-food napkins, anyone?) In fact, no hygiene supplies are covered--including diapers...