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MySpace's story is an almost stereotypical coming-of-age tale for Internet start-ups, a modern-day bildungsroman of social networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME...
...Prestige and Mobility still encourage you to rejoice in the rivers of champagne that flow in Adams like the mighty Euphrates and we would not dissuade you from wallowing in self-pity as you walk the trail of tears down Garden Street to the forgotten, volcanic, dinosaur-plagued underworld of Currier. However, as Aristotle once said, “Man is a political animal (as relates to blocking groups and also women...
...pimps who contact her several times a week from across the country. They think she is one of them, a peddler of sexual slaves. Little do they know that the stocky auburn-haired woman is an undercover human-rights activist who has been quietly mapping out their murky underworld since...
...That underworld is a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway and where impoverished mothers sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some ages 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, while others can go for as little as $2,000. "The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of Iraq...
Soft-core porn has rarely been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than exposing the unseen underworld of the sex-for-sale industry, the film—shot in Tagalog with English subtitles—explores the complex moral conflicts that all-too-guilty pleasures cause in a country like the Philippines, itself conflicted by the secular influences left by decades as a Western territory on its actively religious tradition. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film...