The blog ReadWriteWeb dubbed the feature a "stalking app, " and news of Find Friends Nearby received a cold reception on the Internet, where Twitter users and bloggers panned the idea -- saying Twitter-y things like " Hell to the naw, " " Oh lawd!"

CNN: Facebook pulls location-tracking feature

Designers also remain hell-bent on leather, incorporating it in allover silhouettes like leggings and skirts, or using it as a detail on sleeves, lapels and shoulders.

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And so, you know, many of the problems that Africa has now with this new generation of leaders, with this newly energized civil society, with people who are saying - you know, like the movie Network, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore - I mean, there is a new vibrancy among those who want to see a renaissance in the continent.

NPR: Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance'

In that short period of time, it's gone through one hell of a metamorphosis, and it looks like the bar is being raised for future apps -- Twitter and non-Twitter alike -- on the BlackBerry front.

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The album-opening "Our Hell" sets the tone quickly: Nothing says "grim resignation" quite like the words, "Our hell is a good life, " as Haines issues a soft and subtle, vaguely obtuse argument for complacency in misery.

NPR: 'Our Hell': Making Misery Beautiful

In that recess yard, the boys used to play a kind of baseball -- but with no bat: you'd just whack the ball with your hand and run like hell to first base, which was a basement doorway.

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