Quoted: PlusNews is an online news and analysis service on HIV and AIDS. Part of the United Nations award-winning Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, PlusNews is the largest provider of original and user-friendly reporting on the pandemic covering Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas via internet, radio and TV.

so unnerved!

Quoted: Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenya’s president, have fled because of ethnic violence.

Quoted: In a region known for wines to be drunk and forgotten, there are serious producers creating wines of depth and class that nonetheless retain the joyous nature imbued in Beaujolais.

Quoted: Harvard said that it would significantly increase the aid it offered students in the middle and upper middle classes.

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quoted: On January 28, 1887, in a snowstorm in Miles City, Montana, USA, a rancher witnessed the world's largest reported snowflake to date. He measured the size of the unusually large snowflake at an astonishing 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches thick! Incidentally, the record holder for the highest snowfall totals are also located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Quoted: A proposal to build a Blackwater training camp has riven the social fabric of Potrero, Calif., an unincorporated community of 850 near the Mexican border.

Quoted: Think of Dogster as Facebook for canines. There, my dogs (along with 346,639 other four-legged members, as of last week) had their own profile pages ...

good job by Moveon and the 65,000 facebookers who signed the petition!

quoted: Facebook users protested Beacon as a flagrant violation of privacy. The program enables Facebook to track their purchases and other actions at dozens of Web sites and then broadcast the data within its social network as items on other users'"news feeds."

"We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook's blog. "We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it."

Empowering to users block Beacon entirely "is big step in the right direction, and we hope it begins an industrywide trend that puts the basic rights of Internet users ahead of the wish lists of corporate advertisers," said Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.org.

MoveOn, an advocacy group, organized a petition against Beacon that more than 65,000 Facebook users signed.

Quoted: Were Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination, he may prove harder for the Republicans to rally against and defeat than the all-powerful Clinton machine.