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...that, I would have to click on that link again, and I'm deathly afraid of it. Basically, as I remember, I registered for the site through a Windows Live hotmail address, and very early on in the process it asked if I would like to send along a similar message to every contact in my account. Now, why would any sane person want to invite every person in their contact list to look at photos they hadn't even uploaded? Contact lists are diverse - friends, family, professional acquaintances, people you haven't spoken to in five years. I have...
...University officials have long alluded to the need for further layoffs, which have been rumored to take place by the end of the summer.Galvin said that it is "premature" to predict when workforce changes will take place. He also said that discussions are continuing about the feasibility of a similar early retirement incentive for faculty members, but said that creating such a program is "a complex proposition that will require extensive deliberation by the deans and University leadership."Similar staff early retirement incentive programs have been used at Dartmouth and Cornell in recent months as well. At Cornell, 423 staffers...
...compete with a Medicare-like option, some of the big companies say privately they could live with a government plan, if it had to sustain itself (as they do) on the premiums they collect, and if it is subject to the same regulatory rules that they are. Similarly, the weaker House version would not run into as much opposition from hospitals and doctors, who don't want yet another government plan squeezing them the way that Medicare does. However, that kind of plan would disappoint many liberals, who had hoped that a muscular public plan might be the first step...
...also possible that administrative overzealousness might be a factor, given similar past decisions by MIIT. Ma of IDC says the episode is an "eerie reminder" of the move in late 2003 by the government to require manufacturers of wireless networking products to adopt a Chinese standard called WAPI for encryption of wi-fi wireless communications, even though there was a widely adopted international standard. In that case, howls of protest from manufacturers, not to mention intervention by then Secretary of State Colin Powell, forced Beijing to back down...
...This week's uproar is reminiscent of a similar situation that unfolded last summer after the state government decided to transfer about 100 acres of land to a Hindu consortium. The move was designed to improve amenities for the thousands of Hindus who come to Kashmir each year to worship at a local cave-shrine. More than 60 people were killed in the protests that followed that policy. Incidents like these take both a personal and an economic toll: Hundreds of Indian and foreign tourists were driven out of the Valley this week, and tour operators say that many bookings...