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...David After Dentist was destined for greatness from the get-go. The video, in which a young child copes with the disorienting effects of anesthesia after having a tooth removed, has ricocheted around the world at warp speed, amassing 8 million hits. In fact, the most surprising thing about the video's success was the outrage it provoked, as critics charged David's father with exploiting his son's obvious discomfort by sharing it with the world. YouTube viewers seethed; media-types parsed the inherent ethical dilemmas with Kantian nuance. The tempest subsided when eight-year-old David, reached...
...alike, including Bruce Springsteen. Ticketmaster was already on The Boss's bad side after it recently directed fans to its secondary sales apparatus, which charges more, while regular tickets were still available. (The company publicly apologized.) An open letter on Springsteen's web site expressed his outrage: "The one thing that would make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan than it is now would be Ticketmaster and Live Nation coming up with a single system, thereby returning us to a near-monopoly situation in music ticketing...If you, like us, oppose that idea, you should make...
...Nearly everyone believes one thing and it is at the core of any consensus about keeping the economic system out of a depression. Time is more important than money, if the money is enough to make a good start. It would have been uncomfortable for Secretary Geithner to say out loud that he might well have to come back to Congress for more money. If the damage to credit markets gets worse, Congress will probably be cooperative even if it results in more fighting...
...only thing Geithner could have said that was almost certainly accurate is that he has a good plan, he is working on details which are hard to pin down because the crisis is spreading so quickly, and he will be back for more money once he understands where the problems are getting much worse. He is being asked to ride a bicycle in a hurricane. It may not be reasonable to ask how many times he might fall...
Jose Luis Gonzalez, 60, has been called many things - almost none of them nice - in his 40 years working the streets of Lima, Peru's sprawling capital. "They call us vultures or scavengers most of the time, but sometimes they are meaner, saying we are thieves, criminals. It has never been easy work," he says. Gonzalez is one of an estimated 100,000 people in Peru who make a living diving through garbage to collect refuse - paper, metal, glass - that can be resold for a profit. It is a hardscrabble life, but one thing positive may now be handed...