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...craze started in June 2005 after Google gave the public access to its programming interface for Google Maps. Mashups take the map grids and overlay them with information. Click on a virtual pushpin and a pop-up appears, giving info on a specific location. Whatever the topic?hotels, eats, music or travel?there is likely an existing mashup to guide you. If not, you can always mash your own. Here are some of the best sites...
...personalized guides. The craze started in June 2005 after Google gave the public access to its programming interface for Google Maps. Mashups take the map grids and overlay them with information. Click on a virtual pushpin and a pop-up appears, giving info on a specific location. Whatever the topic - hotels, eats, music or travel - there is likely an existing mashup to guide you. If not, you can always mash your own. Here are some of the best sites: Platial.com is a mashup site that allows users to create individual maps and provides search capabilities so that members can share...
...home in which parents and siblings hunker behind barricades alongside the ones they're biologically closest to does not lend itself to good sibling ties. Well-blended families, on the other hand, may produce step- or half-siblings who are extraordinarily close. One of the best studies on this topic is being conducted in Britain with a large group of many different kinds of nontraditional families. In general, the researchers have found that the intensity of the relationships closely follows the degree of physical relatedness. No hard rules have emerged, but the more genes you share, the more deeply invested...
...question of whether women who donate eggs for purely altruistic reasons - volunteering to undergo the extensive hormonal preparation prior to donation, as well as the invasive procedure of harvesting the eggs themselves - should be paid for their troubles "occupied our time more than any other topic," said Kathy Hudson, a task force member from Johns Hopkins. Some members felt strongly that women should be compensated for the exhaustive procedure, while others were equally adamant that eggs should be treated no differently from any other human tissue that's donated...
Patrick Creadon's fizzy documentary uses interviews, tournament lore and some very cunning graphics to capture all the obsessive excitement of word love. The movie screen is a box too, and this film is as smart and funny as its topic and its stars. Release date: June...