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When You Surf Stores, Stores Are Surfing You. How do online stores decide what products to recommend to me? [New York Times: Technology]

Bush Meets with Leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia. President Bush, meeting with leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia, expressed his condolences today for last week’s attacks on Kenya, and pledged to join with the Horn of Africa nations to combat terrorism. By Marc Lacey. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Pentagon Is Set to Activate Thousands More Reservists. A call-up of up to 10,000 National Guard and Reserve troops for a possible war against Iraq would bring the U.S. to a new level of readiness for military action. By Eric Schmitt. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Suicide Bomber Game Tests the Boundaries of Taste. Using simple animation, an online game allows a player to control a suicide bomber as he runs through a crowded street, eventually detonating. By Sam Lubell. [New York Times: Technology]

What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America
Released: December 4, 2002

Global Gloom and Growing Anti-Americanism

Calling All Yahoos
Worried about what John Poindexter’s up to as federal information czar? Call his home number and ask.
BY MATT SMITH

North Korea Rejects Call for Inspections. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea rejected a call by the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency for the communist country to abandon its nuclear weapons program and allow foreign inspections. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

CNN.com – Uncle Sam wants your kid – Dec. 3, 2002

Feds’ Spying Plan Fades to Black. Without fanfare, the government nixes an unpopular Justice Department initiative that would have turned thousands of ordinary citizens into antiterrorist snoops. Civil rights advocates had strongly opposed the program. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]