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...Since Black Friday, more state-sponsored violence had erupted. The evening before my arrival, a hundreds-strong posse of government thugs had razed a Muslim neighborhood in Kyaukse, a town not far from Mandalay. Ten people had burned to death, including a pregnant woman. Burma is home to anywhere from 2 million to 8 million Muslims?it's impossible to be more accurate because most are denied Burmese citizenship and therefore don't appear in official records. They are often the target of state-orchestrated violence incited (the theory goes) to distract everyone else from their own meager...
When Sara Hinds, 25, A middle-school teacher from Lexington, Ky., got pregnant, she told her blog before she told friends and family. "I thought it would be more fun to announce my pregnancy that way," Hinds says. "I put a link on my family blog to an image of a stork with the words 'We're expecting!', which then linked to my new baby blog. It was a lot easier than making tons of phone calls and having to decide who to call first...
...blogs: she keeps a baby blog for friends and extended family and a mommy blog that her circle of intimates doesn't know about. On the baby blog, Daugherty's in-laws can see the latest photos of Thomas, 2, while the mommy blog recounts her struggles to get pregnant again, her recent miscarriage and her views on breastfeeding...
...exchanging e-mail addresses and phone numbers and even meet in person. Michelle Brown, 28, a stay-at-home mother of three in Spartanburg, S.C., keeps a mommy blog, unbeknownst to friends and family. Says Brown, a Nebraska transplant: "I'm not from South Carolina. I got pregnant right after moving, and I don't know anyone else here. It's nice when I'm having a hard day to write it out and instantly have five people who know exactly what I'm talking about respond." Brown's Moms with Attitude site gets an average of 300 hits...
...incremental approach seems to be working for foes of abortion. Following passage last October of a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion, the Senate last week voted, 61 to 38, to make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked in a federal crime. The House, spurred by the killing of Laci Peterson and her unborn son in California more than a year ago, passed the measure in February, and President Bush has promised to sign it. Supporters deny it is linked to abortion, pointing out that 29 states already have...