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...illegal videos hosted by such sites as megavideo.com and others. Even in America, distribution of cable shows is so inefficient that domestic viewers resort to piracy. The networks’ shocking response to such desperate demand for their products has been not to expand accessibility and profit, but to clamp down on it. Consider Viacom’s legal showdown with YouTube. And has Disney confused itself with DeBeers? The profound shortage of common sense in such moves—given that the fundamental driver of a content creator’s success is the size of its audience?...
...bill that would make the written driver's license test English-only. Farmers Branch, Texas, continues to fight for the right to require that all renters in town show proof of citizenship. In 2008, statehouses passed more than 200 laws relating to immigration, the majority of them looking to clamp down on illegal immigrants or their employers. And there are plenty of signs that as joblessness grows, so too could populist outrage against undocumented workers and their families. Think of Fox News host Glenn Beck and his suppurating monologues about dark forces allied against real Americans...
Meanwhile, black swastikas have appeared painted on many walls of the city of Buenos Aires, including on a monument on Plaza Israel, on Figueroa Alcorta avenue, one of the city's main thoroughfares. The government has said it plans to clamp down on the wave of intolerance and Williamson's expulsion is seen as a gesture by the government to try and allay fears within Argentina's Jewish community. Rabbi Daniel Goldman, a child of Holocaust survivors who sought government action against Williamson, told the Jewish News Agency that "actions such as these clearly show that our people...
...biologists have identified many of the genes that help build embryos. A number of them help lay out the embryo's blueprint by letting cells know where they are. The cells absorb proteins floating around them, and the signals trigger the cells to make other proteins, which in turn clamp onto certain bits of DNA to switch neighboring genes on and off. This network of genes eventually leads a cell to give rise to an arm or a brain or a tongue...
...Friday, the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, which has deployed ships along the Somali coast to try to clamp down on piracy, said teams had boarded the Faina to provide food and medical help to the 20 crewmen on board. The captain died of a heart attack soon after the capture. "The U.S. Navy has remained within visual range of the ship and maintained a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week presence since it was captured," the 5th Fleet said...