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...pursuit, Playboy prodded the country to dispense with "old-fashioned moral strictures on one of the most powerful of human urges," according to Hefner biographer Steven Watts. But their efforts may ultimately have been too successful for their own good. A nation receptive to porn and wired for the Web has been a dangerous combination for print magazines. With pornography comprising 25% of all Internet searches, according to GOOD magazine's estimate, magazines have seen their readership dwindle. Many, battered by declining ad revenues and shrinking circulation, have closed up shop. Last month, after serving for 35 years...
Today is Cyber Monday, the day for shoppers to surf the Web for special deals. As more people feel comfortable making purchases online, Web retailers expect to draw a rising share of holiday purchases. But with the credit crunch and financial meltdown contributing to the massive pullback in spending, will Cyber Monday be an Internet boom or bust? "I would say bust," says Jon Vincent, founder of BlackFriday.info, an online-deal site. Analyst Ken Cassar of Nielsen Online is little more optimistic. "Cyber Monday will likely be disappointing," he says...
...ceremony will also be broadcast live on the Harvard Web site...
...campaign. Now, it seems, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power has been invited back into the fold—she’s reviewing the State Department, which Clinton is expected to lead, for Obama’s transition team. Since mid-November, Obama’s transition Web site has listed Power among the officials selected by the president-elect’s office to review national security agencies. As one of the fourteen foreign policy experts who will focus on the State Department, Power will help the incoming administration prepare for Clinton’s nomination as secretary...
...question of "is making yoga allowed?" does appears on Muslim web sites, and I've found myself wondering just who the doubting yogis might have been in all my many classes. The quiet types taking up the back row, who wear deliberately plain workout clothes? The chatty, devout housewives who got bored during the breathing exercises? That the forums' experts and mediators rule so contradictorily - some rule haram, while many more judge yoga harmless - suggests there is no fixed Islamic position on yoga, just as there is no fixed type of yoga itself. The place of yoga in the lives...