"This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while, " Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press event at the company's headquarters.

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Mark Zuckerberg confirmed to press in London today that Facebook will indeed be launching location-based features in the near future.

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The Dowlers' lawyer, Mark Lewis, who also represents other hacking victims, said self-regulation of the press had "failed abysmally", as shown by the arrest of Press Complaints Commission (PCC) member and former editor of the Sunday Mirror Tina Weaver this week.

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In 1998, after Mark McGwire admitted to doping while setting his home-run record, he was attacked in the press and later blackballed from the Hall of Fame.

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They will likely surpass that mark this year, says research firm Gamah International, thanks to a flood of press releases, tie-ins with newsletter writers and promotional shows like the recent New York Hard Assets Investment Conference, a free event at the Times Square Marriott Marquis that drew crowds in suits and T shirts and 170 sponsors.

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