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...done to Toyota by its recall of more than 5.3 million autos is accumulating: U.S. sales dropped 16% in January, and the company's stock surrendered $21 billion of value in a single week. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) threatened the company with fines for being slow to react to the problems--a pair of faults that can cause sudden, dangerous acceleration--even though the DOT has been criticized for the same reason. Lawyers, who are never slow to react, are swarming. One class action alleges that jammed accelerators on Toyotas have caused 16 deaths and 243 injuries. Customers...
...park would envelop both people and their property, a factor that is a concern to many Micronesians. They worry that the initiative might cast their country as some sort of zoo: a place for travelers to gawk at a culture locked in the past. And just how landowners will react to having rules imposed on them by the central government remains to be seen. "Ownership here is very, very tight," says John Haglelgam, who served as President of F.S.M. from 1987 to 1991 and is now a history professor at the College of Micronesia. "The world park goes...
...secret to survival. "You can't think of these people as people," opined Sergeant Tony Yribe, another member of 1st Platoon. "If I see this old lady and say, 'Ah, she reminds me of grandmother,' but then she pulls out a f___ing bomb, I'm not going to react right." Children were considered insurgents or future insurgents, and women were little more than insurgent factories...
...Daily Show, for all its jokes, cares deeply about facts. If the Times's pay wall doesn't work - if nothing works - something else will replace today's media. Something great, I hope. But I wonder if the new media would be a little bereft without a Times to react to, rebel against and define themselves against, like a dog that finally caught the car. Or in this case, the rolled-up newspaper...
...radio broadcasts to all corners of the globe, the latter emphasizes the U.S. promoting indigenous voice in countries that curb free speech, says NYU telecommunications professor Clay Shirky, adding that enabling citizens to express themselves "is way more threatening than Voice of America-style broadcasts, and autocratic governments will react to that." Thus far, authoritarian governments have largely managed to control the Internet in their countries, argues Hal Roberts, a researcher with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "Actually I think the story of the first 15 years of the widespread use of the Internet is that...