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...mobile Flo TV service, which costs $15 a month, is quite good when signal strength is optimal, with very little buffering. However, when pulling up the programming guide, the audio checks out for a second and then resumes without a hitch until you switch channels. Certainly not a deal breaker in our book, but if you're a compulsive channel surfer, there's a chance it could become a nuisance...
...worst part of the reunion was that this guy Jeff - who for over a month in elementary school tricked me into giving him the dessert my mom packed in exchange for "future" Mystic Mint cookies he kept track of on a ledger - brought a beautiful, large-breasted, heavily made-up woman wearing exactly the kind of dress my imaginary hooker would have worn...
...Afghanistan with the nation's top scholars, it may be facing an uphill battle. The AAA says the program violates its code of ethics - a sort of Hippocratic oath in which anthropologists vow to do no harm. Two years ago, the AAA condemned the HTS program, but this month's 72-page report goes into much greater detail about the potential for the military to misuse information that social scientists gather. Some anthropologists involved in the report say it's already happening. David Price, a professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Washington state...
...denies that its program is designed to help the Army improve its targeting, saying on its website that the role of the program "is neither to directly assist in lethal targeting of insurgents nor the collection of actionable military intelligence." But Ben Wintersteen, who recently finished the nearly five-month HTS training program and has a master's in anthropology, says oversight is lacking. Once on the battlefield, "there's definitely an intense pressure on the brigade staff to encourage anthropologists to give up the subject," Wintersteen says. "There's no way to know when people are violating ethical guidelines...
Late Wednesday, the Indian government announced it would approve the carving out of a separate state known as Telangana from Andhra Pradesh. The movement for Telangana secession is virtually as old as the Indian republic itself, but it gained traction this month after its main political leader, K. Chandrashekar Rao, commenced a week-long fast. Rao's deteriorating health as well as coordinated protests - some violent - across the 10 districts of Andhra Pradhesh's 23 that comprise Telangana, including the influential high-tech capital of Hyderabad, seemed to force New Delhi's hand. But it could open a whole series...