Published: Feb 23, 2012
WASHINGTON — Analysts for a Department of Homeland Security program that monitors social networks like Twitter and Facebook have been instructed to produce reports on policy debates related to the department, a newly disclosed manual shows. The manual, a 2011 reference guide for analysts working with the department’s Media Monitoring
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
Los Angeles THE $26 billion foreclosure settlement deal announced this month arrived in the final throes of Hollywood’s annual awards season. It also arrived too late for my neighbor, a screenwriter and director who moved out of her two-bedroom house the week before last, after her bank foreclosed on the property. There had been no “For
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan We heard the whine of a bomber overhead, and the families I was interviewing suddenly scrambled to their feet. Like starving people everywhere, they had seemed listless, their bodies conserving every ounce of energy to stay alive. “We’ve had nothing to eat but leaves from trees,” one young mother,
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday outlined a set of online privacy principles that officials said would help consumers control the use of their personal data gleaned from Internet searches. The framework for a new privacy code moves electronic commerce closer to a one-click, one-touch process by which users can tell Internet
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
IF the health properties of a glass of milk are not enough to make consumers drink up, maybe a breakfast date with the actress Salma Hayek will do the trick. On Friday, the Milk Processor Education Program, a dairy industry group, will announce the latest version of the National Milk Mustache “got milk” campaign. The initiative, called
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
BENGHAZI, LIBYA — Malik Muhammad al-Mabrouk sat two weeks ago in a darkened corner of the Uzu Hotel cafe lounge, the screen of his propped-up iPad illuminating his face. Notepad, pen and cellphone at the ready, and wearing his trademark beige photographer’s vest, he was preparing to interview a former opposition leader who recently
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
CAIRO — During a terrifying two minutes on Wednesday morning, 11 rockets slammed into a single apartment building in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, the city in Syria that has been besieged by government forces for 19 days. When the barrage stopped, the surviving occupants stampeded down the building’s narrow concrete staircase,
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
WITH the unemployment rate above 8 percent, Americans are taking extreme measures to get hired — even, apparently, brand spokesmen. T. J. Jagodowski and Peter Grosz , who starred in humorous and largely improvised ads for Sonic Drive-In from 2002 to 2010, appear in about a dozen videos uploaded to YouTube over the last few weeks. Proclaiming
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
OTTAWA — Research in Motion , the company that introduced wireless e-mail to the world, on Tuesday finally brought e-mail to its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook . The e-mail application is one of several additions to the second version of the PlayBook’s operating system, which became available as a no-cost download early
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
In the intensifying debate over same-sex marriage, what I sometimes find hardest to understand is why so many opponents don’t see gay people’s longing to be wedded as the fundamentally conservative, lavishly complimentary desire it is. It says marriage is worth aspiring to and fighting for. Flatters it. Gives it reinvigorated cachet,
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