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...slew of similar sites, including Google Latitude (reborn from the wreckage of Dodgeball) and Gowalla, and there are rampant rumors that both Facebook and Twitter are interested in figuring out new ways to harness user locations in 2010. But the biggest challenge? Taking something that's popular in the young, tech-heavy communities on the coasts and making it appeal to moms and dads in between. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...Gosse and others worry that Carnival's cougar kibosh could reinforce a societal double standard: that it's O.K. for older men to have nubile trophy gals on their arms, but we should cover our kids' eyes lest they see a 50-something woman kissing a young Adonis. He says that broader social acceptance is particularly important for cougars and other middle-aged single women, who "are being left out in the cold" by middle-aged men's penchant for younger women. (See 50 essential travel tips...
Love: I think some of the exercise rules [can be scrapped] as well. When you're young and you've got two toddlers on your hip, then you really don't have to lift weights...
When he visited Afghanistan in 1993, a journey that fired thousands of young Muslim men with jihadist zeal, the Soviet occupation had ended, and al-Awlaki was depressed by poverty and hunger in the homes where he stayed. "My impression was that he didn't like it there," says Abdul Belgasem, a fellow student at CSU. "He wouldn't have gone with al-Qaeda. He didn't like the way they lived." But at some point, al-Awlaki must have had something of a spiritual awakening. After graduating in 1994, he set aside civil engineering and applied to be imam...
What distinguishes al-Awlaki is not his record; other preachers have had demonstrably closer links to al-Qaeda and jihad. It is his target audience. Al-Awlaki aims his sermons at young Muslims mostly living in the U.S. and Britain. This is a group he understands better than any other radical preacher. In his fluent English, he has become that rare specimen: the jihadist cleric who can communicate effortlessly with audiences in the West. His tone and his message can appear seductively conciliatory. Most of his sermons have nothing at all to do with radical ideology; they are simple translations...