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...annals of identity theft, this may be hard to beat: after a two-year investigation, Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC revealed last week that counterfeiters had effectively ripped off the company's entire brand. Factories in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were allegedly involved in a sophisticated piracy ring that produced around 50 different types of electronic equipment, including DVD and MP3 players, which the counterfeiters then hawked as NEC products. The pirates even went so far as to design their very own line of fake NEC goods. The fact that NEC hadn't designed them didn't stop irate buyers...
...span of just three weeks, Nixzmary Brown, 7, and Quachon Brown, 4 (the two were not related), died allegedly at the hands of their parents in New York City. In February a North Carolina woman was charged with murdering her 4-year-old adopted son; investigators say she routinely beat her kids with a plastic pipe. In most states, social workers called in to deal with abusive situations face the choice of leaving a child in a potentially dangerous home or placing him or her in a sometimes equally alienating foster-care system. But Minnesota officials believe most families...
...goal came with fifty seconds left in the first half and tied the game at one.Senior goaltender Lydia Gardner excelled in net for the Crimson, making 10 saves.INDIANA 7, HARVARD 6Indiana rallied from an early three-goal deficit and scored with four minutes left in the fourth quarter to beat Harvard in the second round of the Eastern Championships.The Crimson tried to come back, but was shut out by the Hoosiers in the final quarter. “Overall, it was a pretty good game,” Farrar said. “But pretty good doesn?...
...Global warming must be addressed in the same way the U.S. set up the Manhattan Project to beat Hitler at creating the atom bomb. If that was a problem of national security, this is a problem of global security concerning all nations. Hence an equivalent international commitment is needed, instead of bickering among developing and industrialized nations and gimmicks like carbon trading that do not address the scale of the problem. All nations must act decisively. Peter Priyantha Dias Nugegoda, Sri Lanka...
...acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility—even as it remains ever elusive and unfulfilled. “So we beat on,” Fitzgerald writes, “boats against the current,” and Gatsby’s story is one played out over and over again in every generation. To be blind to the beauty of Gatsby is to be blind to the meaning of America...