It has been a year since Seattlest finished The Thesis. We're pretty proud of it. It gave us a chance to get out into the community, meet intriguing people, and listen to their stories. Aside from meeting our greasy research objectives, we learned about some great initiatives, saw great films, and sampled fine community places. We've gotten a lot of good mileage out of the work: conferences, projects, and relationships with many good people.
But enough about us. We realized the upcoming ann... | DATING is a necessary evil for those looking for love yet - long before Mr or Ms Right turns up - most singles will endure a series of nightmarish, boring and humiliating scenarios.
Author Sam Jordison was so inspired by his own fumbling attempts that he launched whendatesgobad.co.uk to let internet users share their own cringe-making experiences.
Overwhelmed by the horror stories, he has put together the best of the worst in the book Bad Dates - True Tales From Single Life.
Here is the cr... | Layla Ahmad, retired teacher and mother of three, considers the Internet among the most dangerous post-invasion developments in Iraq.
"We are a conservative society," says Ahmad, 54. "We don't accept that our daughters meet boys through the Internet. It's dangerous, and you can't observe your children and what they are talking about.
"Three months ago, I discovered that my daughter was chatting with somebody online," Ahmad says. "I took her computer and sold it."
In a country where arranged m... |