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...mean the Chinese were happy about it. In fact, an investment banker close to the proposed deal says "they were furious - not just the company, but the government." The banker notes that Chinalco CEO Xiong Weiping was in Australia offering to amend the terms of the deal in order to salvage it just before Rio demurred...
...talk about how a lot of the time, our minds create mental maps that are actually really inaccurate. Did you find a reason for that? We tend to reduce things to the simplest order that we can. So where there are curves, we straighten them. Where there are weird angles, we make them right angles. And the reason why we're doing that is because it reduces memory load. It's much easier for us to remember something that's got a very simple geometry than something that doesn't. So we align where we shouldn't. We straighten where...
...Even in the regulated Dutch sex industry—prostitution was legalized nearly nine years ago in this country, in October 2000—sex workers have to be at least 18 years of age in order to legally work in brothels and behind windows. Through the course of my research on the situation over the past two weeks, I discovered intense opposition among a slew of Dutch academics, women’s rights advocates, and former prostitutes to a recent proposal to increase the age standard for sex workers from...
...Facebook has maintained the pretense, as was noted in a Techcrunch blog post on the new privacy policies, that they want users to publicize more information in order to help differentiate between people with similar names, thereby making it easier to connect with friends...
Three days after ethnic clashes left 156 dead in the city of Urumqi, the Chinese government is still struggling to bring calm and order to the Xinjiang capital. On July 8, Communist Party leader Li Zhi announced that the government would seek the death penalty for anyone found responsible for the killings as President Hu Jintao flew home from Italy, cutting short his visit to the G-8 summit. While the city hasn't seen a return to fighting on the scale it witnessed on July 5, scattered outbursts are stoking fears that violence could erupt again, and tensions...