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...hours of Tuesday morning last week, someone pressed a button in the Palo Alto offices of Facebook.com, and inadvertently started a not-so-small revolt...
...Prior to the latest incursion, Gaza was still surrounded by the Israeli army, with checkpoints at exits, its coast patrolled and its airspace controlled. It is actually a large open-air prison. Israel's continued occupation of territory beyond its legitimate borders is the problem. Gilwee Walker Palo Alto, California...
...serial kidnapper, Philip Yeo looks harmless enough. But to hear some people tell it, he's a dangerous man. Over the past six years, Yeo has been roaming the world, trailing talented scientists in Washington; San Diego; Palo Alto, Calif.; Edinburgh and elsewhere, and spiriting them back to his home country of Singapore. Like any proud collector, Yeo never tires of ticking off his most prized trophies: former National Cancer Institute star Edison Liu, American husband-and-wife team Nancy Jenkins and Neal Copeland, British cancer researcher David Lane. "I'm a people snatcher," he says unashamedly...
...four other western states that voted against the autonomy item, highlanders like Patricio Mamani of the working-class El Alto community note that regions like Santa Cruz are where most of Bolivia's prodigious natural gas is located - reserves that Morales nationalized earlier this year as part of his government's reversal of recent Washington-backed free-market reforms in the country. "The elite in Santa Cruz want autonomy in order to control the wealth there," said Mamani during the vote on July 2. "They want to live off those riches and not share with the rest of the country...
...assembly will face other hot-button issues that Morales hopes will solidify his leftist reforms and reflect the fact that Bolivia is 70% indigenous. "The point is to establish societal rules that reflect the traditions and realities of the people of Bolivia," said El Alto city councilman Wilson Soria. "For centuries, many of our cultural values have been unrecognized because we've been ruled by a Constitution that responds to the needs of foreigners." The proposals include constitutionalizing traditional forms of indigenous community justice as well as the national "recuperation" of natural resources like lumber, silver, water...