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...plans to build China's first sex theme park were nixed after pictures of the venue's thong-clad, leg-shaped gate caught the attention of the press, though the city of Tongli, outside Shanghai, has its own sex museum displaying centuries-old sex toys and sexy statues to boot. (See pictures of life on the fringes of China...
Meanwhile, the journalism school at the University of Missouri has started introducing graduate-level journalism students to programming with computer-assisted reporting that delves into the basics of database management. Similarly, the University of California, Berkeley, requires students in its graduate school of journalism to take a six-week, boot camp-style course in Web development, during which they are taught the basics of XML, HTML and other coding languages commonly used on websites today...
...refining their role as an on-the-go Internet device. "The mobile phone is always on," says Kan, "so ideally netbooks should be like this." At Computex, Acer became the first manufacturer to unveil a computer that will use Google's Android operating system, created for smartphones, that will boot up in less than 20 seconds. It will be on the market in the third quarter of this year. Taiwanese consumer electronics maker BenQ plans to launch a netbook running Google's Android operating system next year. (Watch a video about dropping your laptop from 3 feet off the ground...
...love affair that cost her a prestigious job and cost her paramour more than a reported $75 million settlement. Suzy and the former General Electric chieftain "work together 24/7," write together and raise her children (and their profile). And she pens smart self-help books cum memoirs to boot...
...Yves Saint Laurent caged ankle boot in patent leather ($1,290; ysl.com...