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...were wondering how online dating became acceptable, even almost fun, blame Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey. Four years ago, they invented the Nerve com questionnaire, which replaced communicating your charms in hieroglyphic SWF-form with a Cosmo-style quiz. You got to name your most humbling moment, choose your favorite sex scene in a movie and come up with words for lines like "Blank is sexy; blank is sexier." Desperate contractions were replaced by insta-wit and faux self-deprecation. Taylor and Sharkey's questionnaire is now used by more than 150 newspapers and websites and has been filled...
...Taylor, 30, and Sharkey, 31, are nationally syndicated sex columnists, and just as dating sometimes leads to bigger commitments, they've now written a book. The Big Bang (Plume; 258 pages) is this generation's smarter, funnier and raunchier version of The Joy of Sex. Not that Taylor and Sharkey don't like the archetypal sex primer and its clinical line drawings. "It just takes itself very seriously, which a lot of people our age and younger can't relate to," Sharkey says. "We wanted to take a more fun approach to sex while making sure we put forth good...
...What Taylor will leave behind--and what the U.S. may soon inherit--is a nightmare. More than half the country is controlled by the two rebel groups that have battled Taylor's troops for the past three years. Both the rebels and the government forces are notorious for atrocities, including rape, cannibalism and the use of child soldiers. The fighting has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands to flee to refugee camps in the capital, Monrovia, where the population has been swelling to more than 1 million. Now the city faces a humanitarian catastrophe. Many people in the camps...
...young Liberians who have known only war and killing, violence is a habit that may take years to outgrow. A big fear is that Taylor's exit will trigger an upsurge in violence, perhaps by Taylor's bands of teenage militias. Standing guard at the God Bless You Gate, Morris Diggs, 14, says he wants to go home and go back to school, but he doesn't even know where his parents are. "We are afraid. If Charles Taylor leaves, you think we are safe?" he asks. "When the President goes, who will take care of us? George Bush will...
...Charles Taylor, Liberian President, indicted by the U.N. for war crimes, trying to set terms for when he will leave his war-torn nation...