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...Personal Democracy Forum, which tracks politics and technology, is skeptical. "Because the age difference between the candidates and the users on those networks is so great, the analogy would be a 45-year-old arriving at a frat party," says Rasiej, who served as a chief technology advisor for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. "Any campaign that tries these sites will come across as fabricated." The real power of these social networking sites, he says, will come only when a candidate "actually uses MySpace and authentically networks through it. You won't see that until today's young people...
...McKinley, Alice, 17, was "filled with an extreme rapture," she later said. Her father's rise to the presidency brought the attention-hungry teen instant celebrity and fashion-icon status. "Princess Alice," as she was dubbed, embarked on a diplomatic mission to Japan with then Secretary of War William Howard Taft, diving into the ship's pool fully clothed, attending sumo wrestling matches and enchanting the press...
...good story while it lasted. In February archaeologists announced the discovery of a new tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the first since Howard Carter unearthed King Tut's final resting place in 1922. Inside the tomb were seven coffins, and on the basis of several clues--such as pottery with inscriptions identical to some found with Tut--Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's antiquities council, speculated that Tut's mother Queen Kiya might be inside...
...Thanks to McDonald's, Holiday Inn, and Howard Johnson, one suddenly could travel coast-to-coast and eat from an unvarying menu and sleep in the same room every night. As Alphonse Karr might have mused, "The more one travels, the more one stays in the same place." Indeed, by now, the Interstates' uniform signages - emblazoned with the system's own red-white-and-blue shield icon; others proclaiming speed-limits and upcoming exits; and still others touting McDonald's, Best Western, Exxon, BP, and Wendy's - float through our subconscious like so many branded Jungian archetypes...
...closely entwined with the growth of China and India; the Kiwis are yet to be recognized as players in this game. Australia's government is strapped on to the Americans in Iraq, while its troops are leading local interventions in East Timor and the Solomons. Under Prime Minister John Howard, Australia's politics have shifted to the right. Although less "p.c." than she appeared a year ago, Prime Minister Clark can still sound like a denizen of Helengrad. New Zealand's Labor-led government has taken quite a different diplomatic and military approach, its impeccable morality matching its near irrelevance...