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...mysterious metallic balloon thought to be carrying a Colorado boy had scarcely returned to Earth last week when a new website launched, its domain name asking the question that much of the nation was wondering: WhereIsBalloonBoy.com. Inspired by the disappearance of 6-year-old Falcon Heene - which authorities now believe was a hoax - the playful site featured question marks next to a picture of a bird (a falcon, naturally) and was updated twice more as the story developed. It later depicted a falcon poking out from a cardboard box, where the boy was found hiding in the Heenes' attic. Within...
...point of the site? To have a laugh, says its creator, Jonathan Percy, an online-advertising producer in San Francisco. Like many others, Percy was transfixed by the bizarre drama and bought the domain name for $9.95 within minutes of the balloon's landing. "There's something kind of funny about a website that just has one single little purpose like that," he says. "I always laugh when I see those." (Read "A Brief History of Do-It-Yourself Ballooning...
...Xinjiang's Chinese rulers, the region's deep history matters far less than its political future. The name Xinjiang itself in Mandarin means "new frontier" - a sign both of its remoteness from Beijing and the difficulty of governing it. That challenge centers on the Uighurs, who comprise the region's majority population and claim a linguistic and cultural heritage that is markedly different from that of the rest of China. And while six decades of communist Chinese rule have brought tremendous prosperity to some, modernization has also raised a profound disconnect between the region's old inhabitants and newer arrivals...
...announce “I may be a strong, proud black woman but I’m a lot more than that” does nothing in actuality to flesh the character out. Regardless of communities or boundaries, though, surely we can agree that Drizzle is a terrible baby name...
...Sarkozy's critics. "Who for an instant thinks that the nomination of a boy entering his second year of legal studies to the presidency of an institution that manages La Défense's billions is based entirely on his merit and not at all on his last name?" asked Joffrin's Tuesday editorial in the daily Libération. "Our monarchy was elective; is it now hereditary?" (See pictures of President Sarkozy...