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...Asia. "No online games for me," wrote Phooey, "cannot download any new songs for my new player, cannot access my fantasy football league, no YouTube, cannot read or write blogs, and cannot get on Xbox Live 360." Another Hong Konger, 32-year-old consultant Josh Tse, reported feeling "some pain, some hollowness" after he found himself unable to update his blog...
...While the holiday may have saved the region's businesses from major financial pain, Budde says that the outage could serve as a reminder to Asian countries of vulnerabilities in their Internet infrastructure. "(Governments) look at this as a telecommunications problem for telecoms to solve," he says. "But telecoms are looking after shareholder value, not necessarily the national interest. I think one thing that will come out of this is that countries will start to understand this is a national problem, not a telecom problem...
...tell my patients that if they are buying drugs over the counter, to check for the label, and make sure that the medication does not contain any acetaminophen," says Dr. Amit Sharma, an anesthesiologist at the hospital. "If it does, then I tell them to cut down on the pain medication given by their doctor...
...Hill has also said the U.S. would be willing to create a working group to address the banking sanctions, which are a priority of the Pyongyang regime, whose financial operations have been severely disrupted by U.S. Treasury Department measures against banks used by the country in Asia. The financial pain those sanctions cause the regime might give the U.S. a measure of leverage, but only to the extent that they can be used as a chip in pursuit of a grand bargain. For the U.S., progress in the talks requires North Korea's moving quickly to implement some practical steps...
...muscles-and yet it's also, like muscle, something we can train and learn, quantifiably, to build up. In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard takes us through all the recent empirical science that shows how contentment can be both deepened and assessed (those who test high for hopefulness can endure the pain of freezing water twice as easily as those who don't). But, more valuably-in part by drawing on friends and philosophers from Europe and Asia-he shows us, in practical ways, how we can make our lives more fulfilling. Ricard started out as a French intellectual who received...