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...midst of a case that Nesson is defending on behalf of Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student at Boston University who faces up to $1 million in damages after being sued by several prominent record labels in 2005 for allegedly downloading seven songs from a file-sharing Web site in high school. Nesson, working the case pro bono with a handful of his students, has seized on the case as an opportunity to campaign for openness and access, both on the Internet and in the courtroom. In a representative effort to increase transparency, the Tenenbaum team motioned in December to broadcast...
...April 17, DeHart lists about 100 items on the docket, including coffee, Pampers, Twizzlers, relish, macaroni & cheese, and Chef Boyardee. "This is the DeHart's (sic) stimulus plan," his listing says on dehartsauction.com, "and it does work." (To find a grocery auction in your area, try auctionzip.com, a site that lets you search for sales by zip code. Type "grocery" in the "keyword...
...likely, if you gamble online. A recent study conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions suggests that the widespread availability of Internet gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people addicted to gambling. The study actually found that gamblers who visit gaming Web sites are more likely to self-regulate their betting behavior based on their pattern of wins and losses. Those who are addicted to gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming Web site. The participants?...
...country's 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline - the longest in continental Africa - has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all," with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country's coastline each year. "In any context," says Gustavo...
...forces that are determined to bring the secular government of this nuclear-armed nation to its knees. "This is the second coming of the Red Mosque," says columnist and politician Ayaz Amir. "It will have an impact, like someone rising from the grave. The mosque has become a site of pilgrimage and followers are revivifying their faith in its waters." (See pictures of how conservative Islam is adapting to the 21st Century in Egypt...