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...watching the house for several months, ever since her daughter had started criticizing Vietnam for giving China the green light to mine its vast stores of bauxite, a mineral needed to process aluminum, on her blog. "The warrant said my daughter was arrested under Article 258 of the Criminal Code for abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the state's interests," said an emotional Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, Quynh's mother. "They searched her house until 3:30 that morning and then put her in a van that disappeared into the quiet of the night." The family has not heard...
...enough room to clearly spell out the relationship between Kmart and the Twitter user? It's all too easy for a reader to gloss over the "sponsored" tag at the end of the message, or not fully comprehend what it signifies. "I don't think we've cracked the code on disclosure," says Blackshaw. (See the 50 best websites...
...Kennedy participated, found that "street groups" accounted for three-tenths of 1% of the city's population but are connected with 75% of its homicides. Kennedy estimates that of the 14,831 nationwide killings counted in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, half are driven by these groups. "Street code says if you're disrespected, you have to hurt someone," he explains. "That is the most powerful influence out there...
Baker said it is important to give potential felons a place to go and be counseled by street workers, a neutral place where they can talk without feeling they are violating the unwritten "stop snitching" street code. That approach involves putting social workers in the street to directly confront the violence. "There are credible messengers who can go in and influence change in behaviors," says Tio Hardiman, director of the gang mediation arm of Chicago's program, also called CeaseFire. "Some of these guys used to run the streets and they have backbone and fortitude and they let them know...
...Indus Valley civilization poses an intractable problem, one that legions of archaeologists and scientists have puzzled over from the first excavations to a new study published last month. Its writing, etched in signs on tiny, intricate seals and tablets, remains undeciphered, shrouding the ancient culture in mystery. A code-busting artifact with bilingual text, like the Rosetta stone, has yet to be found. By some counts, more than 100 decipherments of the civilization's often anthropomorphic runes and signs - known in the field as the Harappan script - have been attempted over the decades, none with great success. Some archaeologists spied...