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...Even more intriguing is the interdependence between Wikipedia and Google. Wikipedia is the second most visited site from Google searches (MySpace.com is number one), due mostly to the sheer volume and prominent placement of Wikipedia listings in Google search-engine results. Google is responsible for 46% of Wikipedia's traffic. How could Jimbo possibly best Google, which was, according to Hitwise, responsible for 64.4% of all Internet searches in the U.S. last week...
...Those steering Taiwan's arts scene say cross-strait traffic has grown steadily over the past 10 years or so, helped by China's economic rise and fewer government restrictions from both sides. Stronger financial support for Chinese performers traveling to Taiwan has come in the wake of China's new wealth. So has a flurry of private arts promoters, keen to bring Taiwan artists to the mainland, where they are a big box-office draw. But deeper processes are at work, too. "Culture doesn't take sides, so the issue of arts exchange isn't so sensitive," says...
...more powerful Lower House, which will continue at least until elections in September 2009. DPJ officials have said they'll try to pressure Abe into calling snap elections, but there's no way of forcing one short of blocking all legislation and turning the Diet into a Tokyo traffic...
...hardest-hit areas include a swath of central China along the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Hubei and Anhui provinces. The Three Gorges Dam on the Upper Yangtze began to release flood water Monday, and boat traffic in the dam's lock was stopped. "The Three Gorges Dam has opened 18 sluices and the water level in the reservoir will continue to rise," a worker told the state-run Xinhua news service. "The safety of the dam will be tested." To the north, the level of the Huai River has begun to drop, but not before causing widespread destruction...
...self-cleaning toilet in its major intersection in 2002 on the grounds that it would be an eyesore, a community-based walking group called Feet First stepped into action. The group produced a "pit-stop" map of local, independently owned coffee shops that would happily welcome the additional pedestrian traffic a public toilet could draw. The Seattle toilet project, however, was ultimately scrapped...