SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 18.8.9
CAPTION: Young Wife, More Viagara
THE widespread tendency in Brazil for men to remarry women several decades younger than them, called the "Viagra effect", is undermining the country's pension system.
The report, by Brazil's National Social Security Institute, showed that a trend of men in their sixties marrying women half their age was leaving a big pool of young widows collecting benefits for much longer than anticipated.
"The social security system was planned so that the wife receives her husband's pension for only 15 years or so," the author of the study, Paulo Tafner, said.
"With growing life expectancy and remarriages with much younger women, benefits today stretch out over 35 years.
He said the younger-wife phenomenon was commonly called the "Viagra effect".
But he noted that in fact the trend started in the 1970s - well before the advent of the little blue pill that has since the mid-1990s helped men carry their sex lives well into old age.
HEADLINE: Facebook sued for being too popular
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 18.8.9
CAPTION: 'I STARTED A JOKE WHICH GOT THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGHING'
FIVE Facebook users are suing the social network for doing what made it an online superstar - letting members share aspects of their lives on the web.
A lawsuit filed yesterday in a southern California court accuses Facebook of being a data-mining operation that does not deliver on promises to give users strict control of data uploaded to profile pages.
Facebook has dismissed the lawsuit as being without merit and promised a legal battle. The suit asks for unspecified cash damages.
One of the parties to the suit is a woman who joined Facebook in an early phase when membership was limited to the college crowd.
Then-Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 as a way for college friends to remain connected as their lives grew apart.
The suit accuses Facebook of betraying the woman by evolving into an open social network that now claims more than 250 million members worldwide.
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