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...done surreptitiously or under the polite guise of "social networking." Now all subtlety has been cast aside. An estimated 30% of all Web searches are aimed at finding people, according to industry statistics, and upstarts like PeekYou, Pipl, Spock, and Wink are vying for a piece of this potentially huge market. These free sites work by scouring the Web for any virtual footprints you might have on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Yahoo!, Flickr and elsewhere, and then creating a fresh profile that organizes all that information on one page. Even Whitepages.com recently expanded its phone listings to include business addresses...
Another summer, another headache for British Airways. Staff shortages forced the carrier to ground flights in mid-2004, a strike a year later cost the airline millions in lost revenues, and last August's terrorist alert brought security gridlock to its Heathrow hub. The sting this season: huge fines for anti-competitive behavior...
...evening dinner was Joyce Carol Oates. who delivered a lively speech about her book Boxing, preceded by a long, esoteric meander through the history of the modern essay. In the midst of her lecture, Oates appeared to make a subtle criticism of Winfrey, whose book club has had a huge effect on the book-selling business. Musing on what truth is within the context of a memoir, Oates seemed to be questioning how Winfrey could pass judgment on the literary worth of an individual's own truth...
Humanitarian activist Basma al-Khateeb will tell you that Iraq doesn't need any more reconstruction projects or development programs now. International donor funds are better spent, she says, on emergency aid like food, water and medicine. "We are facing a huge humanitarian catastrophe," says al-Khateeb, who works on gender and youth issues for the Iraq al-Amal Association, an Iraqi nongovernmental organization. "No one is acknowledging how big the humanitarian catastrophe...
...unlike their previous situation in Gaza, Israelis like Matzliach feel little pressure to leave from the Golan's Arab inhabitants - unlike the huge Palestinian majorities in the West Bank and Gaza, there are now just four Arab towns in the Golan. Their Syrian inhabitants are mostly Druze Muslims, who speak Arabic and Hebrew, run apparently prosperous businesses and farms, and mingle easily on the streets with Israeli soldiers. "I've got many Israeli friends," says Yahyah Abu Shaheen, a 51-year-old contractor in the town of Buq'ata. "We've grown up together and we're human beings...