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Parents of severely disabled "pillow angel" say controversial treatment is success. Girl had hysterectomy, other treatments to stunt her growth. Parents' blog about "Ashley's treatment" created firestorm of Internet debate.

On C|Net you can now vote on your favorite Web Applications. Also skimming through the favourites gives a good overview on "What's out there". Also if you are a Voxer be sure to help SixApart a liitle ;) You won't be here if you dislike Vox ...

The "Action Streams" Plugin was introduced for MovableType. What about Vox? "We obviously want to ship Action Streams in both TypePad and Vox, since we see them as such an incredible feature. Stay tuned and we'll let everyone know when it happens." ~ David Recordon

January 24, 2008 In public statements and under oath, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has denied repeatedly over the past four years that he had a sexual relationship with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The issue was central to claims by former police officers who sued the city and Kilpatrick, accusing the mayor and Beatty of retaliation in part because of what the cops knew about Kilpatrick's private conduct. The Free Press obtained nearly 14,000 text messages from Beatty's city-issued paging device. The messages reveal hundreds of personal exchanges between the mayor and Beatty in September-October 2002 and April-May 2003. Many describe a sexual relationship, often graphicly. The two of them arranged trysts, plotted to spend nights together while traveling on city business and discussed their fears of being caught by the mayor's security team. The Free Press is excerpting some passages, but is withholding exchanges that refer explicitly to sex acts.

January 20, 2008 QUESTION: What's the best country to live in? ANSWER: Iceland, according to the United Nations. Now, that might seem like a chilly answer, but the UN researches thoroughly and once a year comes out with rankings of countries on what it calls the Human Development Index. It gauges quality of life on a number of measurable factors, including income, educational attainment and life expectancy. For 2007, the United States ranked 12th. The top five after Iceland, in order, were Norway, Australia, Canada, Ireland and Sweden. Iceland also ranked first in the world in public health spending. Norway and Sweden were in the top four in that category, and the United States again ranked 12th, but Australia was 18th and Ireland 30th. Probably the best-known person from Iceland alive today is the singer Björk. She studied classical piano in elementary school, then at age 14 formed an all-girl punk band called Spit and Snot. Later she was a member of Sugarcubes, an Icelandic rock band that achieved international popularity, and she has since gone on to solo stardom. One of her latest singles proclaims, "We are the earth intruders," which indicates that not even Iceland is perfect. By Free Press staff

Palestinians have poured into the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing through holes blown by explosions along the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The scenes came on the sixth day of a blockade of Gaza, imposed by Israel and backed by Egypt, in response to a spike in rocket attacks on Israeli border towns.

BRIAN DICKERSON Primary '08: Chronology of a fiasco January 16, 2008 FREE PRESS COLUMNIST August 2006: In a dramatic break with electoral tradition dating to the Mesozoic Era, the major political parties decree that, instead of taking place immediately after the Iowa "caucuses," New Hampshire's presidential primary will follow the Nevada "powwows." July 2007: New Hampshire officials say they'll ignore the parties' primary schedule and hold presidential "confabs" earlier in the year, possibly before Labor Day.

LIVONIA, Michigan (Reuters) - Mitt Romney and John McCain clashed on Saturday over how to revive the depressed economy of Michigan, the former U.S. manufacturing powerhouse which hosts the next Republican presidential primary.

Wow, a backup service that actually works with Vox! While this service performs daily backups of one or more blogs, it currently can only backup public posts and public images. It currently can not backup other media files and blog posts/media posted under privacy filters (such as neighborhood, family, and friends). Still, it's a good option in the interim of the Vox Team incorporating backup exporting for their blogs.

Ross' great review and documentation/instructions on BlogBackupOnline. I highly recommend reading his post.

Last week, we pushed out Release 32 of Vox, the release notes for which can be found here. We turned out some cool features, but there's one new bit of functionality in there that we didn't tell you about yet. We're calling it Vox This and it's an API that allows you to easily bring content from other sites in to your Vox. For you Web 2.0 geeks out there, it's similar to the "Digg This" API, and we hope it's not long before we see other sites out there adding Vox This buttons to their pages.