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...Chinese-language search business. Beijing was never going to negotiate with Google on the issue of censorship - particularly not after the U.S. government hitched its wagon to Google's cause, in the form of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Jan. 21 speech on Internet freedom. In fact, only in the past few days has anyone from the Chinese government even conceded publicly that Beijing was talking to Google at all. But on March 13, Li Yizhong, head of China's powerful Industry and Information Technology Ministry, made sure there was no confusion. "If you don't respect Chinese laws...
...date, in fact, the only thing crystal clear is the market's verdict on Google's stand. And however noble Google's anti-censorship stand may be, one of its large institutional investors (who did not want to be identified publicly) no doubt speaks for many when he says, "There are still a lot of us who can't believe they are going to be out of the Chinese search market; that they've effectively made this choice." But out is what the world's dominant search company will apparently be. "I guess," says the investor, "we just...
...account of a previous expedition that ended disastrously when his ship home from Brazil caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic, leaving Wallace and ship's crew adrift in an open boat for ten days until rescue arrived. "During the night I saw several meteors, and in fact could not be in a better position for observing them, than lying on my back in a small boat in the middle of the Atlantic." Positive-thinking, Victorian-style! Reading Wallace is a wonderful antidote to the prevalent notion that the theory of evolution is Darwin's, and Darwin's alone...
...measure school performance against a new yardstick: improvement among individual students. "NCLB says that a fifth-grade teacher who helps a student reading at a second-grade level reach a fourth-grade level within one year has missed their goal," Duncan said in a statement unveiling the proposal. "In fact, that teacher is an excellent teacher and should be applauded...
...week-long traditional Iranian New Year celebration, which for more than three millenniums marked the beginning of spring in the Persian world. The popular holiday, celebrated with bonfires and, more recently, illegal fireworks, is so hoary it predates the three Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - a fact that the mullahs who rule Iran are quite sensitive about. One ayatullah, Nasser Makarem Shirazi, called the first day of Nowrooz a "superstitious act and baseless. Pious and sensible Muslims will stay away from...