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...this kind of "What would you have done?" minidrama that keeps readers coming back to these blogs. Adam Greenfield, a documentary filmmaker in San Francisco who managed to get through 2009 without setting foot inside a car, got ribbed by commenters after he revealed that he had a friend pick up stuff he had bought at a lumberyard while he rode his bike home. One scathing commenter wrote that Greenfield's yearlong endeavor "proves nothing except that one individual can Rube Goldberg around getting...
Souza, who sought the agrarian reform that would give small plots to the area's poor, was shot three or four times as he bicycled with his wife and her friend on Tuesday evening, said Loyana Nogueira da Silva, the police officer who was on duty when the case was called in. The three were on the edge of a temporary settlement of poor farmers, when an unidentified assailant or assailants approached him on a motorcycle and opened fire. Souza's wife and her friend had biked ahead and turned when they heard the shots. Although they have no firm...
Ralphie A. Haro, a student body president from Miami, was at a friend’s house when he looked at his phone and saw that the e-mail had arrived. When he told his friend he was too scared to open it, his pal went into the next room, opened the e-mail for him, and announced that he had been admitted...
John Blewis, 36, a general manager in Fort Myers, Fla., started training for his first marathon 10 months ago, after seeing on Facebook that a friend from high school had run in their hometown race in Buffalo, N.Y. He joked that he would jog with her the next time around. Three half-marathons later (and 45 lb. lighter), he's registered to compete in the Buffalo marathon...
That's where the Facebook effect comes in. When you see a friend doing something online, you're more likely to follow - whether the activity is telling the world what color bra you're wearing or doing something more goal-oriented. Jennifer Weber says the site helped her catch the marathon bug. "When all these people around you are doing it, you look at them and think, 'Well, if they can run a marathon ...,' " she says. "It spreads like wildfire." The 23-year-old ran her first marathon not long after moving across the country to New York City...