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...northern oil pipeline. The pipeline was closed in late April and the state oil company announced it was losing nearly $120,000 daily. Oil fields in the northern jungle were closed in early June. This was, apparently, one of the reasons that led to the fatal decision to order police officers to open roads and the remove protesters from the pipeline. Garcia has been talking about making Peru an oil and gas superpower since taking office in 2006 and the protests were ruining that plan. The country is currently in the middle of a commodites-led boom, even as most...
...Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang defended the government's decision to require computer makers to install the filtering program, called Green Dam Youth Escort, in order to protect young Chinese from "unhealthy content including pornography and violence." But a survey on the popular news portal ifeng.com showed that 75.8% of the participants thought it might impinge on their privacy; 62% didn't think it would prevent teenagers from viewing "improper" content. As many as 90% are not willing to pay an extra fee for the designated software, and 73% said they would try to uninstall the software when they bought...
...Atlanta area, each of whom agreed to take three different versions of the SAT reasoning test given on three consecutive Saturday mornings. The tests would take three-and-a-half hours, four-and-a-half hours and five-and-a-half-hours, and would be administered in a random order to each of the students. To boost the stress level in the students - who had already taken the SAT in the past and gotten into college - Ackerman and Kanfer offered a cash bonus to any volunteers who beat their high-school score. (See pictures of a public boarding school...
...original version of this article misstated that study participants took one of three different versions of the SAT reasoning exam; each student took all three versions. The article also stated that students took the tests in ascending order of length, but in fact the tests were administered randomly...
...fuel tank and all - had been manufactured on the sly. As the taxi veers east onto Sukhumvit Road, the traders are busy erecting their stalls for another evening of busy commerce. But me? Tonight I'll hole up in the hotel. I'll chuck that shirt in the garbage, order a pizza (is it possible to fake a pizza?) and watch a movie on HBO. Shopping is just too scary...