Word: blackout
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...domestic blocks and access to overseas websites - ahead of the National Day celebration. China's Web censors blocked Facebook in July after unrest broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Average users in that northwestern region have been without Internet access for the past five months, a rare blackout amid China's tendency for more targeted censorship methods. (See pictures of China's 60th birthday bash...
Last night’s event was co-sponsored by the Harvard Dems, Queer Students and Allies, Black Students Association, and BlackOut...
Tuesday night's blackout brought chaos to some of the region's biggest cities and frightened many of its residents. It started at around 10 p.m., when lights flickered for a few moments and then died. It lasted more than two hours. Power returned to São Paulo, a metropolis of more than 20 million people, around midnight, before going off again a few moments later. Lights came back on shortly before 1:30 a.m. (See TIME's photo-essay "A Long History of Olympic Politics...
...many ways, the blackout should have been no surprise. Localized blackouts on city blocks are not uncommon and even major incidents are not unheard of. A similar four-hour outage in 1999 left 60 million Brazilians in the dark. Computer hackers caused blackouts in parts of Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states in 2005 and 2007, according to a recent and unconfirmed claim by CBS's 60 Minutes...
Experts believe the blackout was an isolated incident rather than a deep-seated defect. It nevertheless puts a spotlight on another issue surrounding Brazilian readiness for the global centerstage. It dents the government's pride in an area in which it has justifiably claimed to be a world leader. Brazil gets about 92% of its energy from hydroelectric sources, an unusually high percentage and one that is natural, renewable and non-polluting. The blackout will not alter that. Brazil has enough gas- and oil-fueled plants to serve as back-ups in case of drought, and it will add another...