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...appropriate government authorities. Why not remind all of us of our moral and legal obligations and the ways and means to fulfill them? Without intervention, abuse and neglect of a child often escalate over time. There is also a need for more foster and adoptive homes to accommodate the number of children unable to be cared for in their own homes. Opening one's home and heart to a foster child is one of the most important civic duties a person can perform. You missed an opportunity to make things better. WILLIAM WALDMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR American Public Human Services Association...
...when you read all this commentary about how the winner of the American presidential election will in some sense have lost, think of Stockwell Day. If his party had triumphed, he could have found himself named Doris Day, the television program's campaign having drawn more than twice the number of signatures that Alliance-ators had considered necessary to put an issue before the people. Every time he rose in Parliament to make a speech, some Liberal smart aleck would shout from the back benches, "Give us a song, Doris!" This is a man who won by losing...
Faced with what once seemed an unlimited number of e-tail sites, Web surfers have shifted the task of locating the stuff they want to shopping robots--a.k.a. bots--which are software tools that instantly scan hundreds of retail sites to find the lowest price for a given product. Some 4 million shoppers used these bots in October, double the number a year ago. "Shop bots offer a real value to consumers," says Barry Parr, a director with IDC, an online research firm. "They're here to stay...
There are a number of critical differences among bots, and the way they operate is influenced by their business models. The companies behind the bots want to make money. Since consumers show no interest in paying for the service, the bots must get revenues from selling advertising and from referrals...
...million Estimated number of slaves in the world today...