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...First, to test the hypothesis, I checked the Democrat segments to see what kind of political sites they visit and the top sites included: Barackobama.com, smikrkingchimp.com and crooksandliars.com. Check. The same exercise on the other side of the aisle surfaced sites such as townhall.com and JohnMcCain.com. Satisfied that the system works, I probed deeper to see if I could tell different political affiliations based on what users do online - where they shop, how they play and their brand preferences. Some of the answers were intuitive, some counter...
...Reality Check "A Momentous Journey" is how the Phil's p.r. director Eric Latzky had called it in Beijing the day before the flight to Pyongyang. Immediately after the concert, he had seemed prescient. But momentous things sometimes last just a moment. This is still North Korea we're talking about. Kim Jong Il has run the place now for nearly 14 years. He has not, to date, shown himself to be an agent of change. He still runs a rogue regime, suspected recently of aiding Syria in building what Israeli intelligence believes to have been a nuclear-weapons facility...
According to Harvard women’s hockey tri-captain Caitlin Cahow, the Crimson sets five goals for itself before the beginning of each season.“Beanpot.”Check.“Ivy League Championship.”Check.“ECAC Championship…and it goes on from there.”Presumably, the last two items on that list left unsaid are a trip to the NCAA Frozen Four and finally an NCAA Championship. But part of the reason that Harvard (27-1-0, 22-0-0 ECAC) has been so dominant...
...their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese people will look up to you (you will be taller than most). 4) Tap your index and middle finger on the table twice to thank someone pouring tea or signal that you have enough. 5) Check out Mao’s body—it’s preserved in Tiananmen Square! 6) You should learn a few phrases ahead of time. Here’s one to get you started: “zhe shi she ma zhong de ro?” (“What...
...immigrants commit 21% of all crime in the United States, costing the country more than $84 billion. Rasmusen contends the distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they call...