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...even if the stimulus gets states like Florida off the affordable-housing hook in the short run, will it do enough to make low-income shelter a national priority again in the long run? To critics, the Florida legislature's decision reflects not just fiscal necessity but a cultural bias against affordable housing that has grown since the Reagan era and got outright absurd in recent years. At the turn of the century, Florida was averaging about 10,000 new affordable-housing units per year; today it's about half that. Some Florida towns have even enacted minimum square-footage...
...Senior forward Emma Moretzsohn banked in a hook shot. Then Tay hit one of two from the line. Moretzsohn again. The lead was now cut to two with eight minutes left...
Beam Me Up. Southwest is launching a Wi-Fi test run aboard its new aircraft - a total of four planes in its fleet will be Web-enabled by early March. If you happen to get a seat on one of them, you'll see placards telling you how to hook up to the Internet for free. In other Southwest news, the airline has just announced it will begin service to Boston's Logan Airport (until now, it has been flying to nearby Manchester, N.H.) this fall...
Similar cases have had their day in court in the U.S. Ever since Congress passed the Communications Decency Act of 1996, courts have let internet service providers off the hook for distributing obscene or otherwise illegal material. And Internet publishers, like newspaper sites, are ordinarily not liable for defamatory material contained in comments posted by readers. Google has been challenged here and abroad for the way it uses other sites' content on its Google News site. So far, though U.S. courts have sided with the search engine company, courts in other countries have seen it differently. Google lost a copyright...
...more than 8 million subscribers. Nonetheless, publishers know they cannot count on younger consumers. The Asahi Shimbun is helping launch a paid service for thumb-tapping readers who want to access news through their cell phones. The multimedia program is set to roll out this summer and aims to hook 10 million subscribers in a few years...