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...many descendants are taking the buildings apart and selling the spoils. The antique shops of Chettinad's biggest town, Karaikudi, are full of them?and they are pitifully cheap. Intricate, 200-year-old teak doors?depicting a wonderful miscellany of Hindu Gods, Victorian ladies and scenes from the Raj?fetch a mere...
...girl to win the McDonald's High School All-American slam-dunk competition, beating two future NBA first-round draft picks in the process. Only three college women and one WNBA player have ever dunked during a game; Parker first slammed as a high school sophomore. Although her dunks fetch the most attention, her game is complete: she dribbles like a point guard and throws no-look passes from the post, and during one workout, the right-hander hit 22 out of 30 three-pointers--shooting left-handed...
...Still, determined Chinese web surfers manage to tunnel through today's firewall with the help of software that guides them to overseas "proxy servers," computers that enable them to fetch and view banned content. Activists smuggle proxy software into China and pass it hand-to-hand on flash memory devices. "It's really cat and mouse," says Bill Xia, president of U.S.-based Dynamic Internet Technology, whose product bounces users among many proxy servers, making it hard to track the surfer's identity...
...BASKING SHARK, the second largest shark in the ocean, is endangered because its fins are a popular ingredient in shark's fin soup, which can fetch as much as $100 a bowl in Hong Kong...
...mass-market mobile services. And they already provide some video content over their existing networks. But once mobile broadcasting goes mainstream, users could well abandon 3G for the real thing. The near future will likely involve some mixture of transmission methods. One possible scenario is that consumers might freely fetch mass-market shows from broadcast airwaves, while purchasing more specialized video - such as, say, a Lenny Bruce skit or minor-league soccer clip - from mobile networks. This would not be all bad for mobile operators. Not only would it save some revenue for them, but it would also allow them...