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...preferred blogging community," the majority unpaid - according to AnnArbor.com president and CEO Matt Kraner. Rather than looking like a news-media website, AnnArbor.com deliberately reads more like a social-media site, with equal weight given to reports on a new diner and the proposed city income tax. Ads - known as "deals" - are incorporated into the feed, and users can vote for their favorite, with the highest vote getter scoring a place on the cover of the Sunday hard-copy edition. Not exactly Pulitzer material...
...Devi, known to her friends as Ayesha, was born into the royal family of tiny Cooch Behar in eastern India. In her autobiography, she recalled an idyllic childhood of English governesses, big-game hunting and finishing school in Switzerland. Her mother, a daring socialite in her own right, disapproved of Devi's joining the orthodox royal house of Jaipur, whose women lived in purdah--hidden from the gaze of men outside their families. But Devi had already fallen in love with the jet-setting, polo-playing maharaja, and she soon made Jaipur her own. She started an élite girls...
...nation's first televangelists, F.J. Eikerenkoetter II, 74, better known as the Rev. Ike, spread his gospel of material wealth to millions of viewers with proclamations like "Jesus was a capitalist." His opulent lifestyle, bankrolled by church donations, included several mansions and a fleet of Rolls-Royces. "My garage runneth over," he once quipped...
...Rome Abortion Drug Okayed The Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency has voted to approve the use of the abortion-inducing drug Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, prompting condemnation in the predominantly Roman Catholic country and a threat of excommunication by the Vatican for prescribing doctors and their patients. In its ruling, the agency noted that the "well-being of citizens" supersedes "personal convictions" about the pill, which is already available in the U.K., the U.S. and China. Senior church bioethicist Monsignor Elio Sgreccia blasted the drug as a "poison...
...Paris New HIV Strain Discovered Fighting AIDS just got tougher. Unlike the three previously known strains of HIV, which have been linked to chimpanzees, a new variant--discovered in a 62-year-old Cameroonian woman who tested positive in 2004--appears to have come from gorillas. Researchers say the new strain may be difficult to detect using conventional tests but expect current treatments to remain effective...