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...Since his March 2004 election, Zapatero has led a virtual revolution in social policy in once-devoutly Catholic Spain, legalizing gay marriage, easing divorce and encouraging stem-cell research. The 45-year-old Socialist leader has become the smiling symbol of Old Europe's rising secularism. Benedict may have had ?Zapatero's Spain" in mind when, on the eve of the conclave that chose him to replace Pope John Paul II, he denounced ?the dictatorship of relativism" in a powerful and oft-cited speech to his fellow Cardinals. In the 15 months since, the pontiff?s fierce intellect and clear...
...such as Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps with data on just about anything to create 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...
...will report the possibility without knowing the odds. The media want to be fair to both sides, but they should attempt to get at reality. I'm a threat skeptic. The organizations we're facing now aren't military-like. They're much less organized. The training camps are virtual. I suspect they're much less likely to acquire and deliver WMD than al-Qaeda was in its heyday. I fear we lack public information to have this debate. And without that, we can't figure out if we're in the right spot between security and liberty...
...race. Although students are moving right on many issues, the President isn't necessarily benefiting. In 2000 Al Gore beat Bush among 18-to 29-year-olds by only 2 percentage points, but recent polls show Kerry with a double-digit lead among the young. (The race is a virtual tie overall.) Of course, very few conservative students will vote for Kerry, but most of the kids who attended the conference didn't seem eager to become field troops for the President either. As National Review editor Rich Lowry noted on the conservative magazine's website the day after...
...vacuum when the gave up their traditional mediation role following the election of the Hamas government in January. And the usual mechanism for restraining violence between rival Palestinian groups on the ground - a consensus at the top over the need to maintain national unity - has been replaced by a virtual collision course between Hamas and President Abbas...