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...even a conformist society has certain hot buttons that are better left unpushed. Last week's launch of a computerized national ID system, which tags every citizen with a unique 11-digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia and Hong Kong with little public outcry. But a survey by the Asahi Shimbun...
...horror stories. Official statistics show 5,000 women have been trafficked in Korea since the mid-'90s, but human-rights groups says the real figure is much higher. More than 8,500 foreign women entered Korea last year on "entertainment" visas, mostly Filipinas and Russians. These visas are a tool for international trafficking, says Goh Hyun Ung, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration: "The women don't know they are going to be locked up as soon as they get to clubs and forced into prostitution." Goh says U.S. soldiers sometimes help Filipinas escape from clubs, but most...
...music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of the granite cliff ..." he wrote in his autobiography, adding that he wanted to establish Yosemite as "a sanctuary." For much of his life he fought to protect the places he loved, using his photographs as a lobbying tool...
...copyright law says you can look under the hood under certain circumstances but you can’t build a tool needed to open the hood,” Beeson said. “This irrational rule is chilling important scientific research in violation of the First Amendment...
...monitors al-Qaeda web sites and those who use them. But it's far from clear that clumsy disruption would more useful to Washington than diligent monitoring. Moreover, the jury is still out among intelligence officials over just how actively al-Qaeda uses the Web as a communication tool...