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...stores are removing Morissette's old CDs from their shelves in protest. "Anytime there's a paradigm shift like this, people are going to be resistant," the singer says. "It happened with the Internet too." Here's to you, Ms. Morissette, pioneer of the CD-with-a-soy-latte frontier...
...weeks ago, Kang bribed North Korean and Chinese border guards, and crossed the Tumen River to China from the North Korean frontier town of Hoeryong. Like hundreds of refugees who flee totalitarian North Korea every year, Kang has plenty of reasons to leave family and home, but one gnaws at her: hunger. Kang (not her real name) says she has been surviving on corn and noodles for the past few months. With planting season in the North just beginning, food stores are short and many townspeople aren't getting enough to eat, she says. North Koreans used to be able...
...South, tightened its border controls and increased executions of those accused of people smuggling, according to NKNet, a Seoul-based NGO. China has also beefed up its border patrols, according to refugees. Last October, the Chinese government was operating half a dozen detention facilities inside military bases near the frontier and was repatriating up to 300 North Koreans every week, according to a confidential study by South Korea's National Human Rights Commission whose contents were revealed to TIME...
...eventually found prominent internet lawyer Terry Gross through the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which advocates the protection of civil liberties as related to technology and the internet...
Space: the final frontier. Night and day, it is the one thing that that all human being share, aside from the approximately 1.4 percent of our genetic material that is common to all humans but not to chimpanzees. Enveloping us all in its vacuum-powered embrace, it is the massive and unwieldy momma of our own mother earth. And now, as advances in technology make the outer limits increasingly accessible (even the Canadians have a space program!), we must all brace ourselves for the impending big bang of twenty-first century consumerism: advertising in outer space...