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...election, no one was complaining that there wasn't enough to see or read on the Internet. And that was before YouTube, Politico, Huffington Post, Twitter and Facebook became daily or hourly necessities for millions. In 2004 newspaper websites were still mostly "shovelware"--the paper edition reproduced. They weren't bloated with blogs and video and interviews with the reporters who wrote the story. But now everyone has a blog. The opportunity for us all to express an opinion is wonderful. Having to read all those opinions isn't. In 2004 there were probably still more people reading blogs than...
...have visited him at his office, sent him letters and e-mails and left messages on his website urging him to knock it off. At today's launch in Kimpo City, 20 miles northwest of Seoul, Choi and other activist groups were followed by police and some military, but weren't hindered. With the anti-Pyongyang activist groups vowing to continue launching their leaflets, the Cold War rivals could find themselves wondering if the past decade of exchanges was just...
...Canada and Taiwan do - with open arms. "They are at much more advanced stage with accepting foreigners," admits Asato of Kyoto University. In 2006, the Philippines signed an agreement with Japan similar to Indonesia's, but the Filipino students later interviewed by Kyushu University's Hirano last year weren't interested. Without an attractive package from Japan, Hirano fears none of the high-caliber Filipino nurses will want to come...
Between job stress, irreconcilable schedules and general inertia, my live-in boyfriend and I had fallen into a serious sex rut - we weren't having any. So when he suggested last Halloween that we spend the weekend in New Orleans - or, as I like to put it, getting sleazy in the Big Easy - I jumped at the chance...
...Alperon brothers, say police, were feuding with at least four gang families. "They are the most primitive type," says Menachem Amir, a respected Israeli criminologist. "They specialize in violence and extortion. You'd find men like them in the Roman markets of antiquity. Nothing's changed." They weren't quite 007 villains: they fought pitched battles over who would control the $50 million market in recycled plastic bottles...