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...reason we haven't heard apologies yet is an increasingly widespread belief that "I didn't do anything illegal" is equivalent to "I didn't do anything wrong." Clearly it is not. How do we fix that? Dan Horsfall, CHANHASSEN, MINN...
Going all-in? Not likely, if you gamble online. A recent study conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions suggests that the widespread availability of Internet gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people addicted to gambling. The study actually found that gamblers who visit gaming Web sites are more likely to self-regulate their betting behavior based on their pattern of wins and losses. Those who are addicted to gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming...
...Zuckerberg must be at least partially right, because no one is leaving. In fact, Facebook continues to grow. Are users too addicted to quit? It’s more likely that Facebook usage became so widespread that, like cell phones and e-mail, people of a certain age would be more inconvenienced by signing off than by sticking with a flawed system...
...issue of daily usage helps explain the most reviled design change this year, the latest version of Facebook that aired in Februrary. The newest Facebook is a perfect storm of redesign hatred because of the website’s widespread use and the intense need for familiarity by its users...
...widespread torture remains in Iraqi jails at present is not publicly known. So far, neither the U.N. nor the Iraqi government has made any verifiable statistics available. But few doubt the practice continues today among Iraqi authorities and criminal elements. Torture, of course, has had a long history in Iraq, achieving particular notoriety during the era of Saddam Hussein. Observers say the recent years of war have created a social environment in which torture can continue to flourish. "In Iraq, we can notice all these acts of torture were done by young ages, people between 20 and 30," says Nahith...