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...kids flock to these sites and how they can be more dangerous than old-school chat rooms. The reason: in chat rooms, predators have to engage in conversation to get to know people. But on sites like MySpace, they can access gobs of information by reading users' profiles, which tend to include photos as well as blog entries and bantering with friends. "It's totally addictive," Hannah Kranz, 16, says of MySpace. "My cousin gave it up for Lent." Kranz, who lives in Ferndale, Wash., says she interacts only with users she already knows offline and feels secure because...
...Hyatt, Hilton and Westin. "They just don't have the brand name or international drawing power." As a result, local firms are eagerly teaming up with the foreign giants, which contribute their names and expertise, and also ensure that the hotels are designed to exacting standards. The local partners tend to put up the cash for construction, while the foreign firms earn steady management fees for running the hotels...
...shares with his grandfather is art. The creative dna has multiplied through his author father and painter mother. "Artists have a sensibility that others don't have," he says. "They have a way of reading into the future." And so, in their own way, do business leaders - they just tend to have less time...
...Nevertheless, the thinking goes, if San Francisco's local plan for the uninsured takes off, it could be a model for other metropolitan regions nationwide. "This is a city that wants to right the proverbial wrongs," Newsom says. "We tend to march to the beat of our own drum and that, hopefully, is something that can awaken people's imaginations elsewhere...
...their goal is to preserve quality, reform slowly, and set an example others will want to follow. That 1,300 boys can swim in Eton's bounty when millions of British teenagers cannot is in some sense unfair. Nevertheless, Little says that his friends who are state-school headmasters "tend to be rather pleased that places like Eton exist. They're a point of reference for what you can do if you have the money; of something that can be moved toward." He has a point; it is unlikely - to put it at its very lowest - that Britain would...