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...With access to the mass media and the Internet, village folk are becoming more conscious of pervasive hardship and injustice and are beginning to voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people...
...friends to keep tabs on one another despite hectic Harvard schedules. This seems harmless—insofar as it increases comfort levels with blogging, quite valuable even. Still, when creating new discussion forums we ought to think carefully about in which category (public or private) they belong, lest we clamp down unnecessarily on conversations which should rightly have been open...
STICK 'EM UP Starfrit's Quick Fix spatulas ($3 to $5) clamp to the edge of a pot to keep drippings off the counter and help minimize mess. The head is made of silicone--the hot material in today's kitchens--so it won't melt into the tomato sauce...
...funding for Hamas. Saudi Arabia stopped funding Hamas through government channels several years ago, but U.S. officials believe the terrorist organization is still receiving large private contributions from rich individuals and Muslim charities in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Arab world. Rice wants Saudi officials to clamp down on those private financial channels...
Kirichok’s breakthrough came when he noticed a tiny bubble on the sperm’s tail, near the head, which allowed him to patch-clamp the sperm at that bubble...