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...majority of these missives receive virtually no media coverage, nor do they influence government policy. It took Congress eight days after the Haitian earthquake to pass H.Res. 1021, a non-binding expression of “condolences and solidarity.” (During those eight days, they named four post offices.) The high-minded Congressional statement likely offered little solace to Haitians trapped beneath rubble and distracted from governmental efforts to bring tangible benefits to those in need...
...blog post on Feb. 10, Google product managers Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly laid out the company's plan to provide as many as 500,000 people in a small number of locales with fiber-optic Internet connections capable of one gigabit per second (Gbps), more than 100 times faster than the typical U.S. broadband connection speed today. It would be a blazing-fast upgrade, capable of downloading a full-length HD movie in under 90 seconds. To be considered for the trial, cities have until March 26 to submit information about their existing networks, with Google planning to choose...
...biggest announcement in a weeklong speed blitz for Google. In a Feb. 9 Op-Ed in the Washington Post, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt called for faster Internet connections as a way of narrowing America's "innovation deficit." And on Feb. 11, Google launched a Speed Dashboard as part of YouTube, designed to let users compare the performance of their Internet connections to those of other providers in their neighborhood and around the world. Think your neighbors have faster Internet than you? Now you can confirm your suspicions and weigh up whether it's worth it to switch providers...
...additional seven officers were wounded in the brazen assault Monday by more than 100 communist fighters, who also stole weapons from the security post in Shilda village of West Bengal state, said district magistrate N.S. Nigam.(See photos of India at turning points in its history...
...didn't show any signs of being physically attacked with a bat, but later said it was possible she was assaulted. Kissel side stepped the question of whether or not she had served her husband a drug-laced milk shake. As the local English daily the South China Morning Post noted at the time, few were surprised when the verdict came in guilty...