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Facebook amended its policy a few months after Woolington died. "We first realized we needed a protocol for deceased users after the Virginia Tech shooting, when students were looking for ways to remember and honor their classmates," says Facebook spokeswoman Elizabeth Linder. The company responded by creating a "memorial state" for profiles of deceased users, in which features such as status updates and group affiliations are removed. Only the user's confirmed friends can continue to view the profile and post comments...
...Face the Nation, where he said that Obama's "bottom line" is that there should be "choice and competition in the insurance market." Hardly a new development, considering that the White House and the President have been sounding pretty flexible for months on the subject of a public option. Spokeswoman Linda Douglass reiterated that in a statement on Aug. 16. "Nothing has changed," she said. "The President has always said that what is essential is that health-insurance reform must lower costs, ensure that there are affordable options for all Americans and increase choice and competition in the health-insurance...
...what does Merkel think about the cleavage posters? When TIME called the Chancellor's office, a spokesperson predictably declined to comment. At the CDU's national headquarters, a spokeswoman tartly said that "there was no prior consent for this issue." Party officials refuse to be drawn on the details. There's no denying, though, that Lengsfeld's womanly attributes have turned the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg into the most exciting constituency in the German capital and made the CDU the hot topic of the day. And that must give Merkel plenty to chuckle about...
...still working in South Ossetia, has been trying to find a path through the minefield of identity politics to reunite families that have been split by the war. "Right after the conflict there were lots of requests from people seeking to be reunited with their families," says Marina Tedeti, spokeswoman for the ICRC operating in South Ossetia. Since the end of the war - and with the support of both the Georgian and the South Ossetian governments - the organization has brought 320 people back together with their families through what Tedeti calls "a small but quite delicate" process. (See pictures...
...blindfolded, and some of them were seriously injured," says an MMA statement. According to CNN, since the crew at first believed they had been boarded by a genuine law-enforcement agency, no police complaint was made, and the Arctic Sea continued on its way. At one point, a spokeswoman for the Swedish police told CNN, the ship was witnessed performing "extreme maneuvers...