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...reaction was not due to partisan concern - as when South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson was hospitalized with bleeding in the brain, shortly after the Democrats won control of the Senate in 2006 and the party feared losing his seat and control of the Senate. If anything were to happen to Kennedy, his seat would remain securely in Democratic hands, since a temporary replacement would be appointed by Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Deval Patrick until the next elections. The alarm felt by Democrats had little to do with the Senate's balance of power, but rather from contemplating for the first time...
Twice, the movie paused for a few seconds to buffer the video stream. That's a buzz kill - the Roku folks say it can happen when your broadband speed drops below 1 megabit per second. (My standard Comcast connection is usually above 2 megabits per second, but congestion, I guess, happens. Either that or Comcast, which has long been suspected of throttling back on bandwidth hogs, is punishing...
...stuff, all of which carry a greenhouse gas cost. Asking China to limit greenhouse gas emissions even as its GDP continues to grow at nearly double-digit rates is like asking them to give up the good life they're just beginning to taste. It's not going to happen - and yet to avert dangerous climate change, it has to happen. That's the paradox of global warming politics...
...newspapers of the arrested reporters are urging government investigators to go after the police and officials who provided spurious information. That's unlikely to happen. At best, the arrests will encourage reporters to "be more careful to double-check sources and do adequate attribution," says Phu of the Saigon Times. At worst, the incident will discourage media coverage of corruption scandals in the future-which won't help Vietnam's leaders in their anti-graft campaign. McHale calls corruption a "cancer" that threatens to eat away at the country's economic gains. "Billions of dollars of FDI (foreign direct investment...
...trying to locate anyone who knew the dead man. He walks through the crowd gathered on the sidewalk, flashing identification cards from the deceased's wallet to anyone who will look at them. But none will claim him. "If I leave his wallet here, what do you think will happen?" says Zhao. "There are people from the local government around, but they're somewhere else right now. Everyone is overwhelmed...