Word: switchings
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...TIME: You're an admirer of John McCain. In 2008, will you switch parties again to support his presidential campaign...
...that it's the fifth anniversary, sometimes I switch on the TV, see the footage, and it's like I'm watching my husband's death again. I just don't want to see that. I don't want to feel that again. This time of year particularly, the temperature makes me think of it a lot: how the seasons change from summer to fall. I get the same sort of sadness every year this time. But even though it's been very hard, I think the whole experience has taught me to value life more. I value...
...Facebook face-off ended peacefully early Friday morning. The protested "News Feed" on the social networking site, which allowed users to track their friends' activities, now has an off-switch. By adjusting their privacy settings, users can limit or block friends from seeing their Facebook movements. The curious can still check their friends' profiles for updates, but they now have to do so manually...
...nature, News Feed is intrusive, and that's what upsets students. It's one thing to casually check out a friend's updated profile between classes. It's another to be unwillingly inundated with each friend's latest Facebook antics. The News Feed does not have an off switch, although users can block or limit non-friends from seeing their profiles, which feed directly into the News Feed. At the very least, the aggrieved students want the option of a News Feed off-switch. Some want Facebook to do away with it completely...
...Thank you very much. But politics is ultimately a game of logistics, and the junior Senator is putting the machinery in place for a campaign that looks far grander than a re-election cakewalk in New York. All it will need is for someone to throw the switch. Against virtually nonexistent opposition for her Senate seat, she is raising money as though she were in the fight of her life, bringing in more than $33 million. What's left over--which might easily be $10 million or more--could be the seed money for a presidential campaign...