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Multiply, a social network largely geared towards adults, has launched a new set of printing features that allow members to order professional prints of their photos directly from their online albums and those of their friends.

Available photo products include photo books, calendars, cards, and standard prints. The site uses an intuitive drag-and-drop interface to place photos, allowing users to cull shots from both their own online albums and those of their friends. Users can collaboratively put together a photo book, but are also free to copy and manipulate each album to their liking (for example, parents could work together to create a photo book of their little league team, customizing the cover of each printed book to feature a photo of their own child).

Multiply has a leg up on some of the major social networks because it has long positioned itself as a media-centric site - the site’s 10 million users have uploaded twice as many photos per capita as Facebook’s. And unlike Facebook, which only offers photo printing at the low resolutions visible on the site, all Multiply photos are stored at their original resolution. To help facilitate getting photos
onto the site, Multiply released an application earlier this year based on Adobe’s AIR platfrom that automatically uploads new photos to the social network.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she would consider serving in the Senate if God gave her the opportunity and Alaskans wanted her to take the job. The state’s senior senator, Republican Ted Stevens, held a dwindling lead as the count resumed in his re-election bid….

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force general who runs the Pentagon’s missile defense projects said Wednesday that American interests would be “severely hurt” if President-elect Obama decided to halt plans developed by the Bush administration to install missile interceptors in Eastern Europe….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Urgently shifting course, the Bush administration is abandoning the centerpiece of its massive $700 billion economic rescue plan and exploring new ways to shore up not only banks but credit-card, auto-loan and other huge nonbank businesses. Democrats are pressing hard to include a multibillion-dollar bailout for faltering automakers, too - over administration objections. Unimpressed by any of the talk on Wednesday, Wall Street dove ever lower….

Four current and former high school students filed a lawsuit against the Puyallup School District today claiming they were called “sluts and “whores” after a student newspaper printed a story that detailed their sex lives.

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The objective of multiracial societies shouldn’t be electing people of color in proportion to their numbers in the general population. It should be fostering a civic culture in which someone with good ideas can be elected regardless of their race.

Today film studio Red Eagle Entertainment announced plans to establish Red Eagle Games, a studio that will produce games based on Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. The games will be developed alongside movie adaptations of the series, which Red Eagle announced a few months ago. They’ll be working with Universal on the films. “[Red Eagle producer Rick] Selvage said in an interview that the game company will make a series of games that will be co-launched with the movies. In addition, Red Eagle Games will make a massively multiplayer online game based on the Wheel of Time universe.” Wheel of Time fan site ‘Dragonmount’ recently spoke with Selvage about the movie plans.

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