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The first example is a network of books on politics, compiled by V. Krebs (unpublished, but see www.orgnet.com). In this network the vertices represent 105 recent books on American politics bought from the on-line bookseller Amazon.com, and edges join pairs of books that are frequently purchased by the same buyer. Books were divided (by the present author) according to their stated or apparent political alignment—liberal or conservative—except for a small number of books that were explicitly bipartisan or centrist, or had no clear affiliation.

For our second example, we consider a network of political commentary web sites, also called “weblogs” or “blogs,” compiled from on-line directories by Adamic and Glance [32], who also assigned a political alignment, conservative or liberal, to each blog based on content. ... the network divides cleanly into conservative and liberal communities and, remarkably, the optimal modularity found is for a division into just two communities. One community has 638 vertices of which 620 (97%) represent conservative blogs. The other has 587 vertices of which 548 (93%) represent liberal blogs. M. E. J. Newman. 2006. Modularity and community structure in networks.

Now the LORD said unto Abram: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

Genesis, 12:1-3

In the average home [in the US], a television set is turned on for more than a third of the day _ eight hours, 14 minutes, Nielsen said. That's an hour more than it was a decade ago. Most of that extra TV viewing is coming outside of prime time, where TVs are on only four minutes more than they were 10 years ago.

The average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day, Nielsen said.

While people are watching more television, ratings for the big broadcast networks have declined steadily. That's a function of the greater number of channel choices available in each home, the company said.

One new Nielsen finding _ that young people aged 12 to 17 watched 3 percent more television during the season that ended in May than they had the previous year _ is a particular relief to TV network executives.

Experience, however, shews, that the fancied or real insecurity of capital, when not under the immediate control of its owner, together with the natural disinclination which every man has to quit the country of his birth and connexions, and intrust himself with all his habits fixed, to a strange government and new laws, check the emigration of capital. These feelings, which I should be sorry to see weakened, induce most men of property to be satisfied with a low rate of profits in their own country, rather than seek a more advantageous employment for their wealth in foreign nations.