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...Free speech advocates were also caught off guard. Some complained that the move was yet another brick in China's notorious Great Firewall, the government's ever-expanding system of website blocking, word-recognition software and other surveillance and censorship activities that severely restrict what Chinese netizens can access. But everyone is in the dark about the details: how the software will be installed, whether it was possible to remove it from computers, whether scofflaws will be penalized and how the rules would be enforced. "The biggest challenge right now is that we don't have any details," says...
...increase in computer-related wounds? One explanation is that more households not only have computers but also have multiple computers and, therefore, multiple opportunities for injury. Another theory suggested by the researchers is that the democratization of computer access - as equipment has gotten cheaper - has resulted in increased ownership by new computer users or by people with less education in using the technology, who may be more prone to accidents and misuse. Whatever the root cause of the rise in injuries, it bears noting that the study data accounted only for injuries serious enough to require a visit...
Flight Info on the Fly. Southwest Airlines has upgraded its mobile site, which now lets you book or cancel flights, access your frequent flyer account, view schedules and check flight status all from your smartphone...
...m.p.h. (about 115 kph), Cyclone Aila tore through parts of coastal Bangladesh and eastern India on May 26, killing roughly 200 people and forcing 500,000 to seek refuge in shelters and on rooftops to escape rising floodwaters. The death toll is expected to increase as rescue workers gain access to more isolated areas. Low-lying Bangladesh is regularly gutted by cyclones in the spring and fall, which precede and follow its monsoon season. Aila also hit Sundarbans, a mangrove forest on the India-Bangladesh border that shelters endangered royal Bengal tigers--some of which have also been stranded...
...favor gay marriage, compared with fewer than 40% of older people. On other issues as well, attitudes have evolved in the direction of equality. Today more than two-thirds of Americans think that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military and that their partners should have access to employee benefits like health care. Even Evangelical icon Rick Warren recently called the fight against gay marriage "very low" on his to-do list...