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...Beijing That's not PC Chinese Netizens are balking at a new rule starting July 1 that will require all computers sold in the country to carry website-blocking software--a policy that gives the government even broader control over citizens' Internet access. Officials billed the move as a crackdown on pornography, but China's history of Web censorship has activists and Internet users concerned that the preinstalled software will be used to limit free speech and privacy...
...1980s and '90s landed it on the U.S.'s terrorism list. Experts say the NCRI's support in Iran is now tiny and its international base is shrinking. The NCRI and MEK, say Iran watchers, have become little more than an excuse - or handy alibi - for Tehran's crackdown. (See pictures of Iranian society...
...weekend cacophony of messages and videos, one note lingers. A video posted the night before the crackdown is of a woman reading a poem about Iranians standing up to change their country, afraid but determined to move into the morning, even if it is to face forces that would destroy them. The voice is sad and at one point almost breaks into a sob, and in the backdrop of the Tehran night can be faintly heard protest chants: "Allahu-Akbar, Allahu-Akbar." God is Great, God is Great. A Palestinian friend of mine remarked that those words would once have...
...Eastern Bloc and then the Soviet Union itself, which came on the heels of years of sustained U.S.-led international pressure. Another example is South Korea, where energetic bipartisan U.S. pressure peaked in 1987 when U.S. ambassador Jim Lilley hand delivered a letter from President Reagan urging against a crackdown on protesters. The advice was heeded. Two weeks later the protesters' demands were met, and Korean democracy was born...
...getting the pigskins' genetic sequence right. In recent years, DNA evidence has also been instrumental in identifying human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims of Argentina's "dirty war," the bloody crackdown by military rulers in the late 1970s and early '80s. Among them is Hugo Omar Argente, whose brother Jorge was a victim of a 1976 dynamite blast. "They called me on the phone and said the test results had identified him," he told a reporter. "I just cried and cried...