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...severe lack of democratic participation in ICANN is obvious from the numbers. There are an estimated 370 million Internet users worldwide, of which 160 million are in the United States and Canada. Yet ICANN's ill-publicized membership drive from February 25 to July 31 garnered a meager 158,000 applications. Due in substantial part to ICANN's delays in mailing out passwords and PIN numbers, only 76,000 individuals worldwide, of whom 10,000 were from North America, were able to activate their memberships in time to gain voting rights. Thus, the body setting the standards for the world...
...there would be no end-run around a student union. If students could maintain their solidarity, firms would have no recourse but to recognize the union if they wanted to recruit from its membership. And for the first few firms that signed on, it would be a public relations bonanza to have exclusive access to the "best" graduating seniors in the nation...
...party. And there's a furious struggle at the very top of that party over China's economic and political direction - a struggle in which hard-liners obsessed with maintaining order are currently dominant. Arch- reformer prime minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the conditions attached to WTO membership as a whip with which to dramatically accelerate the pace of economic reform, but Zhu has been increasingly marginalized over the past 18 months, particularly after President Clinton backed out of concluding a permanent trade agreement last April at the height of the furor over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage...
...just kinda grew out of that very, very informally." By the time Slashdot was officially launched in 1997, the Net was hot, and geek culture was hip. Now, hyped only by word of mouth--no in-your face TV spots and no three-story billboards--Slashdot has a membership in the hundreds of thousands and logs well in excess of a million hits...
...famous bender of spoons. "I went to meet him, and, honestly, I fell in love with him," says Boteach. "He truly wants to restore children to the center of their parents' lives." The Oxford Union says, "We are convinced this will be received with great enthusiasm by all our membership...