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Like a growing number of grieving relatives, Weiss tapped into one of the most powerful troves of memories available: a loved one's online presence. As people spend more time at keyboards, there's less being stored away in dusty attics for family and friends to hang on to. Letters have become e‑mails. Diaries have morphed into blogs. Photo albums have turned virtual. The pieces of our lives that we put online can feel as eternal as the Internet itself, but what happens to our virtual identity after we die? (Read "Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated...
...intense frustration of aid groups and government officials, only about 35% of families in diarrhea-stricken countries use ORT - less than half the WHO's target. Until zinc arrived in Sogola, only about one in 10 village residents used the sachets when they or their children became ill. That number has soared since Traoré added zinc tablets to the prescription. "Mothers don't see ORT as real treatment," says Eric Swedberg, senior director of child health and nutrition at Save the Children U.S. in Westport, Conn. "But when you add the zinc you really see the effects. This...
...sure that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. The jury is still out. What we know is that there are still a number of questions that Iran needs to clarify. I fully support Barack Obama's initiative to engage in a comprehensive dialogue to build trust...
...Child. "I could write a blog," Julie tells her cute husband Eric (Chris Messina), who agrees, because he is as supportive and helpful as a Seeing Eye dog. She is pleased by her growing mastery of French cooking, but what she's really exultant about is the growing number of comments on her blog. She has followers, the contemporary dream. After the New York Times's Amanda Hesser writes about her, Julie returns home to 65 messages from assorted agents, publishers and reporters and delightedly tells Eric, "I'm going to be a writer!" By then we know her ambition...
...week when a Paris swimming pool refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a "burqini," a swim garment resembling a diving suit. In France the incident falls into a wider political debate over how to reconcile the country's Muslim immigrants to French secular values. And while the number of Muslim women in France - indeed, throughout the world - who insist on a severe covering like the burqa is small, the challenge of staying slim and Islamically proper is not. (Will France ban the burqa...