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...Whenever we're on the Internet, we leave behind this very revealing and gigantic trail of information," says Nicholas Bramble, a Yale Law School fellow who has studied digital evidence. And that trail - which can include anything from a post on a Facebook profile to a message to a MySpace contact to an appearance in the background of a stranger's photo - can be a "huge resource" in judicial proceedings, he says...
...Democratic stronghold of Massachusetts was ... well, it was a sign. One with his name on it. Someone had made it by hand and planted it in the snow in a front yard near Lunenburg. That was back in December, when the polls showed he was running 30 points behind Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the Senate seat once held by the late Edward Kennedy. Pretty soon after that, he told me, "they were popping up all over the place." People were even spelling out his name in snowbanks. (See 10 elections that changed America...
...Vietnam abandoned a centrally planned, Soviet-style economy back in the 1980s but remains under the firm control of the Communist Party. Reforms helped Vietnam grow at breakneck speed, with several consecutive years of 8% growth - a rate only slightly behind China's - that lifted millions out of poverty. Economic liberalization, however, has not been accompanied by similar political freedoms. While Vietnam continued to grow and its citizens prospered, there was little groundswell of support for multiparty democracy. But the recent economic downturn, coupled with several high-profile corruption scandals where officials have been caught with their hands...
...primary [concern] for the average voter - and I've met hundreds of thousands of people since I've been [campaigning] - the biggest problem that I have heard is that No. 1, we can't afford it, and No. 2, they don't like how it's been done behind closed doors. They don't like the political maneuvering...
...nation's crimes. "We don't trust them. They come to our country and treat Koreans as below them," says Yoon Jong Hyun, 46, a truck driver in the city of Yangju, north of Seoul. "They commit a lot of crimes because they know they can hide behind the treaty...