Article: The Web of desire: On any given day, Craigslist is a compendium of what we want and don't want anymore.

Byline: Abigail Tucker

Aug. 15--We want to rescue ailing hermit crabs. We want to swap a 10-foot wooden ladder for topsoil. We want General Mills to sell Lucky Charms marshmallows separate from the cereal. We want a pretty tennis partner.

We want partners for plenty of other stuff, too -- fleshy transactions that you have to be 18 years old to even read about. And in some cases, we want to be paid $150 or $300 for our trouble. But the schemes of the four alleged prostitutes busted in Anne Arundel County last week for soliciting sex on Craigs list.org represent only one strand in the vast web of desire that is the online classified site, where people ...

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