WHO ARE CAROLINE LYDERS AND CYNTHIA RODRIGUEZ?
So who the hell are Caroline Lyders and Cynthia Rodriguez? Well, that's what I was wondering when I looked at their ranking today on Hot Trends. With this nifty site you can see a snapshot of what's on the public's collective mind by viewing the fastest-rising searches for different points of time. You can see a list of the current top 100 fastest rising search queries in the U.S. You can also select a recent day in history to see what the top rising searches were and what the search activity looked like over the course of that day.
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Antiwar Art in a New Medium: Paintball-on-Web - washingtonpost.com

HOLED UP IN CHICAGO
Wafaa Bilalan, an Iraqi has holed himself up in Chicago for a month where people shoot at him 24 hours a day. He pokes his head out from behind a screen and -- splat! -- inches from his face. "They wait for me to let my guard down, like predators," he said. More than 40,000 shots have been fired at him.
(WASHINGTON POST)