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...involvement in the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor in 2005. Given the controversy stirring around Wikipedia, the history department at Middlebury College has banned its use as a research source. When did the online form of the dust-covered encyclopedia become such a magnet for drama...
...long as the café continues to be undisruptive to the rest of the library, and even act as a magnet for the disrupters from the reading rooms, it should be a welcomed sacrilege in the world of books...
...Vista is secure, or at least it's securer. If that's a word. Being a near-monopoly makes Windows a magnet for phishers, viruses, adware and other malware writers. So Microsoft has worked on that, mostly under the hood. I think what most impressed me were the built-in parental controls: you can decide when your kids will use Vista, what websites they can go to, what applications they can run, whom they can IM with, and so on. And if they try to break the controls, Vista will rat them...
Hong Kong may still be polluted, cramped and expensive, but somehow or other it continues to reinvent itself. Almost 10 years after the Brits returned Hong Kong to China, the city remains a top regional base for scores of international companies as well as a magnet for overseas capital. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Hong Kong totaled $33.5 billion in 2005 (the most recent figures available). In Asia, only mainland China has attracted more FDI in recent years. Close ties to the booming mainland continue to drive the economy, which grew...
...public-education system may lag that of competitors like Singapore, but somehow or other, it continues to reinvent itself. Almost 10 years after Hong Kong was returned to China by the Brits, the city remains a top regional base for scores of international companies as well as a magnet for overseas capital. Foreign direct investment in Hong Kong totaled $33.5 billion in 2005 (the most recent figures available); in Asia, only mainland China has attracted more FDI in recent years. Close ties to the booming mainland continue to drive Hong Kong's economy, which grew...