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The western world's most feared government is shaking with insurrection in the streets after a contested election and the leading name in news, CNN, is shockingly absent from the story. Twitter, meanwhile, is how Iranians are communicating with the outside world. It's the best place to follow events going on in that count (Read More)
: I don't watch US Cable News channels to find out what is going on in the world, so it's no great loss or surprise to me, that CNN are apparently ignoring this story.
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor
Michael Kinsley suggested that President-elect Barack Obama may be fibbing about giving up cigarettes and said we should "offer him a light and look the other way" ["Let the Guy Smoke," op-ed, Nov. 20]. Mr. Kinsley may have said this in jest, but it's no joke that smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in this co (Read More)
: Pets may not be important to you, but they are important to the people they belong to. I was a refugee from Katrina and I know that an estimated 200,000 pets died. They shouldn't be forgotten in all this.
: Well sitting here I just wonder how we would fare? We are actually lucky that Im sure we could find it it we needed it....but I know there are many who are in a worse of position than we are....I just hope there are not families that are home because of lack of resources to leave....I also wonder if there is one place that people could report that they were staying..so do they have a count and a location of as where those are..
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Are you an avid Twitter user? Do you Tweet newsworthy topics? We're looking for 20 people who meet that description to help us test a new feature on socialmedian as early as Friday this week. Please reply via comments if you would be interested in participating in this new feature test which will help people share newswo (Read More)
: Hi everyone -- you can edit your Twitter feed settings now and determine if you want all, some, or just tagged #sm tweets to get to socialmedian. Go to "Add something" on top of any page, click on "sites" then edit your sites.