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...seem very proud of your arrests in the book. How many times have you been arrested? I was arrested five times this year by the same police officer. So I think that's got me close to 50 or over. It's hard to remember them all anymore...
...results. We use things like nonviolence and economic boycotts and consumer campaigns, whatever we have to. The main thing is to exert real pressure on the government. If you're sitting down in a conference room, there's really very little opportunity for that. We need to talk hard about how much reduction in our consumer lifestyle [slowing climate change] is going to take and not just tell everybody there's going to be a rosy scenario if we put up a few more windmills and buy a few more Priuses...
...Recently in Germany, particularly in the run-up to the elections, there has been an unfortunate discussion about justice in the former G.D.R. The hard-left party Die Linke is driving a campaign to reject the term state of injustice when talking about the regime in East Germany. This is another attempt to play down a dictatorship that destroyed families and careers, killed people in jail and at the Wall, and built a monstrous system of control and terror with access to all sectors of daily life. Young Germans learn a lot about the crime and terror in Nazi Germany...
...That kind of growth is hard to come by in the recession-wracked technology industry, and a crowd is starting to gather. Around the world, at least 17 e-readers are in development or already on the market. Among the better-known entrants is Asustek - the Taiwanese company practically invented the netbook category with its ASUS Eee-PC, and it is working on a product called the Eee-reader that it hopes to have on the market in time for Christmas. South Korea's two powerhouse consumer-electronics companies, Samsung and LG Electronics, are wading in too. Samsung earlier this...
...Newcomers will have a hard time breaking Amazon's chokehold in the U.S., where the company controls 60% of the e-reader market, according to Forrester Research. But the edge Amazon gained when it launched the Kindle could be blunted by evolving technology and changing consumer needs. Currently, more people read e-books on their smart phones than they do on dedicated devices like e-readers...