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...Digital Ramparts The New Radicalism China got counterrevolution, Japan had its jobs-for-life thing, but Taiwan never developed much of an entitlement culture. But take away their Leon Lai downloads, and Taiwanese are ready to storm the barricades. "We cannot remember a time when the students of Taiwan were so united by a burning rage," head-scratched the Taipei Times. The source of this unrest: two weekends ago, authorities in southern Tainan busted into a university dorm room where students were burning bootleg CDs. The predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said...
Though most of the sewage pipes flowing into the river have been identified and stricter regulations for storm drains have been set in place, there are still unidentified sources of pollutants, according to the officials. Sediment on the river bottom also presents a challenge to meeting the 2005 goal, for it can take years for another layer to form on top of the river bottom...
Environmentalists will continue to focus on reducing storm water runoff into the river, which carries with it pollutants from gasoline to laundry detergent...
M.I.T plans to help the effort by sponsoring a contest for the best storm-water drain...
...storm came out of nowhere. A magazine most people had never heard of was in the spotlight. On TV, John Ashcroft was getting fire-tested at his nomination hearings for a interview he'd given in 1998 to Southern Partisan. On Meet the Press, Delaware Senator Joe Biden called it "a white supremacist magazine, so I'm told." How could Ashcroft be a fit Attorney General if he agreed with it? "We've all got to stand up and speak in this respect," Ashcroft told the magazine, "or else we'll be taught that these people were giving their lives...