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There's also the fact that, until recently, ramps were hard to get. Aside from their short window of availability (two to three weeks, max), a lot of markets simply didn't have them. Do a search for ramps on the Chowhound discussion boards, and over the course of a few years you'll go from its almost total obscurity to the veggie's showing up at Whole Foods. As Davina Baum, the managing editor at Chow, a leading site for adventurous home cooks, put it, "You always remember the first time you said, 'What are ramps...
...ongoing struggle. Their work is mirrored by employees of large Web portals who ensure content conforms with official directives. With what is called the "Great Firewall of China," authorities block access to overseas Web pages deemed objectionable and shutter domestic sites that repeatedly stray into restricted territory. Search engines are prevented from linking to sensitive content. Mainland media, which face a host of regulations that limit how they can report the news, are often forced to take down controversial stories that have been posted online. (See pictures of Chinese mourning the loss of Google...
Perhaps the greatest threat China's censorship regime now faces is that it can't seem to stop debate over censorship itself. Since Google declared in January that it planned to stop censoring its Web search results in China, the state of online censorship has come under increasing scrutiny. The Chinese government has sought to portray its conflict with the Internet giant as a commercial dispute and a simple matter of law. But to a significant number of Chinese Web users, the extensive Web restrictions increasingly chafe. So they make use of widely available proxies and virtual private networks...
...government officials ordering him to remove articles that teach users how to circumvent Web restrictions, or else his website would be shut down by authorities. This has left him with little choice, he says, but to switch to an overseas server. In late March, when Google began redirecting Chinese search traffic to an uncensored site based in Hong Kong, authorities blocked Ng's site. His daily traffic dropped from more than 20,000 hits to 6,000 overnight, but many mainland users still climb the Great Firewall to view his site...
...served on the Board of Overseers for the past eight years and was a member of the search committee that selected Drew G. Faust as University president...