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...calling for a 24-hour waiting period to allow screeners to review changes to users' profiles, which would make these dynamic sites a real drag. Connecticut, meanwhile, has talked to Defense Department vendors to see what technology is available to screen content for key terms that might raise a red flag. The one issue all the states seem to agree on is the need to verify users' ages...
During a Hong Kong summer in the late 1960s, there are reports of bombs exploding in the streets, rumors of dead bodies floating "down the Pearl River, from the fighting in Canton," and the buzz of an increasing onslaught from the "Red" East: "Little Red Books of Mao Zedong's edicts wave in the air. Red bursts of firecrackers. Red drums. Red Guards." In this summer in the city Alice Greenway sets her slim and lyrical debut novel, White Ghost Girls. Greenway's book depicts the coming-of-age of two American girls, Kate and Frankie. Amidst the faint rumblings...
...springs on you. It's a rectangular oil panel: a group of adolescent Brahmins, bare-chested and with gleaming, sacred threads dangling around their torsos, sit cross-legged against a burgundy background. One of them stares at you, one turns away, and the central figure, with a white-and-red paint mark on his forehead, looks beyond you, as if seized by an inspiration. The painting, Brahmacharis, is mesmerizing enough if you are a foreigner, but for any Indian, its power is multiplied by the glamour that surrounds the signature on the work: Amrita Sher...
...ADMITTED. Magen David Adom, Israeli aid society, as a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, ending decades of isolation from the humanitarian group; in Geneva. Since 1949, the Israeli agency had been excluded for refusing to wear the Movement's official red cross or red crescent symbols because of their religious connotations. Last week the international group adopted a new official emblem, the neutral red crystal. It also amended rules excluding non-sovereign states from membership, enabling the Palestine Red Crescent Society to join...
...travel coast-to-coast and eat from an unvarying menu and sleep in the same room every night. As Alphonse Karr might have mused, "The more one travels, the more one stays in the same place." Indeed, by now, the Interstates' uniform signages - emblazoned with the system's own red-white-and-blue shield icon; others proclaiming speed-limits and upcoming exits; and still others touting McDonald's, Best Western, Exxon, BP, and Wendy's - float through our subconscious like so many branded Jungian archetypes...