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MARKET DAYS A bone-jarring two-day jeep ride across Kyrgyzstan's border with China lies Kashgar, a hub on the Silk Road for more than a millennium. Camel trains laden with tea and textiles would emerge from the Taklamakan Desert, meeting other traders descending from the lofty Pamir Mountains, all survivors of terrible deprivation and brigandage. The glory days might be long gone but so are the bandits, and Kashgar welcomes ordinary tourists eager to see Central Asia's most spectacular market...
According to the Yale Daily News, Yale officals say the university has “hired an agent to identify illicit file sharing.” The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
...says, "and I had to come in that day." As it turned out, on May 15 somebody needed a lawyer very badly indeed. That was the day that Jose Padilla--former Chicago gang member, alleged would-be dirty bomber for al-Qaeda, constitutional test case for the new millennium--arrived in New York City. And by pure chance, it fell to Newman to defend him--which is how an obscure criminal-defense lawyer began her transformation into a crusader who is now suing the President of the United States...
...gathered force since Korea's remarkable World Cup run. Chung, also an independent legislator in the National Assembly, has deep wells of World Cup popularity to draw from; current polls already give him a 10% lead over opposition candidate Lee Hoi-chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made overtures to Chung, but the football chief says he will form an independent party shortly after he officially declares his candidacy. In running for the presidency, Chung is fulfilling the dreams of his late father Chung Ju-yung, the founder of the Hyundai group, once Korea...
...opportunities offered by environmentally friendly technologies and practices. And as a world community, we have held landmark conferences in Stockholm (1972) and Rio de Janeiro (1992), negotiated dozens of multilateral agreements, built up institutions like the U.N. Environment Program and set out a common vision of progress in the Millennium Development Goals, which include eradicating poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality and achieving gender equality and universal primary education. But as is so often the case, our understanding--popular and scientific--has run ahead of our political response. Johannesburg offers a chance to catch...