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...this year's South by Southwest Interactive conference is the third birthday of Twitter, which first became popular there in 2007. But users who attended a keynote ... with the site's chief executive, Evan Williams, [headed for the door early and tweeted their gripes] ... after Williams failed to offer new details on how the company plans to generate revenue...
...least bit happy about the film, which airs on Germany's ARD public-television network on March 31. In fact, Scientologists claim they are the victims of a "hate campaign" being propagated by the movement's critics. But Carl Bergengruen, the head of drama at a public broadcaster in southwest Germany who was instrumental in getting the movie made, insists that the filmmakers did not set out to vilify Scientology but to show how people can be drawn to "promises of salvation." (See the top religious stories...
...Austin lands on that list too. The central Texas city of 760,000 has a few built-in advantages over other cities. The University of Texas and the state government - Austin is the capital - provide some economic stability. And as the Southwest's technology center, Austin is home to many high-growth (though high-risk) companies. It is also a music mecca and the gateway to Texas hill country, attributes that help it attract desirable workers. For all these reasons, it hasn't been battered quite as hard as other cities by the recession; the unemployment rate was nearly...
...Weiqi Zhang ’10, who is writing a thesis in Social Studies, his time abroad this summer convinced him to alter the focus of his thesis. Zhang, an inactive Crimson news editor, had originally planned to focus on the Nu River Dam in southwest China and locals’ concerns about the dam’s construction...
Humble Heroes Tom Henderson's article on ShelterBox modestly refrained from mentioning that the charity is based in Helston, in Cornwall in the far southwest of England [Feb. 15]. Cornwall is the poorest county in England, despite large numbers of "settlers" like me. Its population receives wages 20% lower than the U.K. average, it receives E.U. aid, and there is a serious lack of affordable housing. It's very humbling to live with such generous and openhearted people. Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...