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...duty to shape language and culture belongs to citizens, not government. Censorship will never be an acceptable form of governance; we find it no less repugnant in this case simply because the New York City Council’s action was a resolution and not binding law. Freedom of speech does not only apply to righteous citizens or noble speech for good reason—if we ban one offensive word, what’s to stop a wholesale inquest into our entire language...
With global travel in its best shape in years, Air France is enjoying the fruits of its 2003 merger with Dutch airline KLM, creating a dual-hub network with considerable global reach. Skeptics predicted the marriage would founder on Dutch resentment of notoriously overbearing French handling of past binational mergers. Yet the partnership has not only functioned better than management or labor had hoped, but has also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with...
...give shape to that new paradigm is MobiTV's adoption of the WiMAX standard, a.k.a. "wi-fi on crack." It combines unicast (a stream to a single user at a time, like the Internet) and broadcast, increasing capacity to allow higher data rates, two-way communication and so on. "We're just beginning to scratch the surface," he says. Maybe he'll eventually get it to download chocolate bars...
...players and recover from injuries while playing one of the toughest schedules in the country. Litvak’s present condition reflects the team’s struggles. “I keep getting injured and coming back, and my body isn’t in the greatest shape,” Litvak said. “In my match, I got tired, and I let her back into the match in the second set.” “But I closed it out,” she added. “I feel my tennis is really...
...help Detroit, says Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Governor Jennifer Granholm. The state has cracked down on offenders caught using guns in a crime and has worked to improve the coordination between federal, state, county and local police in and around Detroit. Cox says poverty and unemployment certainly have helped shape Detroit's culture of violence. "I know in the 1960s people thought poverty was a cause of crime," says Cox. "But I also think now we know crime is also a cause of poverty...