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...past year. Iran executed at least 388 people, Iraq at least 120 and Saudi Arabia at least 69. The total of 714 documented judicial killings outside China--a low estimate, Amnesty says--includes 52 in the U.S. The anti-death-penalty group also reported that for the first time since it started keeping track some 30 years ago, there were no executions in Europe...
...show of solidarity with imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of the National League for Democracy opposition party voted March 29 to sit out Burma's upcoming elections, which are the military-controlled state's first since 1990. Despite winning that contest two decades ago, Suu Kyi was never permitted to rule. She was forbidden to run this time around, a decision that has angered protesters in other nations, including the Philippines (above...
Tennessee and Delaware won the first round of the Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion federal grant program to help states improve their education systems. The two states bested more than 40 other applicants by not only coming up with solid plans to save failing schools but also garnering support for the plans from stakeholders. Tennessee was awarded $500 million; Delaware will receive $100 million. Some $3.4 billion remains to be awarded in another round this August...
President Obama announced a plan March 31 that would allow oil drilling 50 miles off the coast of Virginia and encourage exploration for future drilling sites along the Eastern seaboard and northern Alaska. (The Pacific Ocean and Bristol Bay are off-limits.) Obama called the drilling leases, the first of their kind in two decades, a "balance" between the country's future oil needs and a desire to protect its natural resources. The proposal was largely seen as an effort to court GOP support for an upcoming climate-change bill...
...first quarter of 2011, Motorola's assets will be divided evenly, with both parts sharing intellectual property and the brand name. Jha will oversee the mobile-device and television-set-top-box businesses. Brown will run the rest, which the company calls Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Networks, a name that could only have been fashioned by engineers. "I've long advocated that these were two distinctly separate companies," Brown says. "The split will mean renewed focus, improved innovation, better customer satisfaction and increased employee engagement...