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...remote control - to get music news, text info about artists, MTV charts and tours to pop up on their screens while they watch videos on regular MTV channels. In Britain, the company is testing ways to integrate both Internet and mobile data services with TV. A live interactive request show called Videoclash lets viewers vote for their favorite music videos via the MTV U.K. website or by using text messaging. Votes show up instantly on the TV screen...
...works. Since it was set up last year, 40,000 people have used Gyandoot to check out produce prices, sell land or cattle or get official documents. Gattu Lal, 65, applied online for his grandson's caste certificate, which guarantees school admission and a scholarship. Within a week the request was processed and verified. Before, it would have required several 20-km treks to the government office and some bribes. When a group of women from Malipura village recently complained they had not received their $10 maternity benefits, their protest was forwarded to the local government officer, Mohini Srivatsav...
...Hanssen indictment came the same day that outgoing FBI Director Louis Freeh admitted on Capitol Hill that bureau archivists had discovered still more stray papers in the McVeigh case--after Freeh's 16th document request to FBI field offices. Ashcroft pushed back McVeigh's execution until June 11. McVeigh's lawyers may seek more time, and attorneys for accomplice Terry Nichols have already asked for a new trial. At first, bureau officials blamed the snafu on an outdated computer system, but last week Freeh pointed the finger at his own hand-picked field commanders and middle managers. "I think there...
...cease-fire; instead, his report into Mideast violence has started a new spin war. And Israel has had the better of the opening volleys. By ordering his troops to avoid firing unless their lives were threatened, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon achieved three important effects: He complied with Washington's request that Israel make the first gesture towards implementing the Mitchell Report by declaring a unilateral cease-fire; he made the Palestinians look like the spoilers for deriding that gesture; and he has drawn the focus of discussion away from the fact that he has no intention of complying with...
...that their churches have collected this year for the school. A pizza party is planned; new book bags are promised to some of Hand's poorest kids. Before they break, once again with a prayer, Hand principal Jeanne Stiglbauer slips in a final request: "Standardized testing is coming up, so please keep all our students and teachers--and their principal--in your thoughts...