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...Vice-Minister accustomed to running a branch of China's government as his own virtual fiefdom, the sentence must have come as a surprise. On Tuesday, a Beijing court handed down a death penalty for Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), after he was convicted of dereliction of duty and accepting some $850,000 in bribes, according to local media reports. But while the severity of the sentence wasn't completely unprecedented-several senior officials have been executed for corruption in recent years including a deputy minister in 2000-it was still...
...trip ends in the stillness of faux orbit where the payload bays open to reveal a state-of-the-art graphic of Earth in a stunning view very few people have ever seen firsthand. Air sickness bags are conspicuously absent. Unlike an astronaut-training simulator or other virtual reality systems which allow multiple degrees of stomach-turning motion - forward and backward, up and down, side to side, pitch, roll and yaw - this simulator only allows for pitch. But in clever combination with a powerful Buttkicker audio system, which lets riders feel sound, strong vibrations, timed seat compressions and video cues...
...super-nerd. On one side, the floor’s multimedia stations (where you can snuggle up in a comfy $300 office chair) look aout on a stunning vista of the Government Documents and Microforms room and Lamont’s front garden. On the other, a virtual death-row of cubicles tempts only the most concentrated studiers. Luckily, in case the below-sea level altitude induces a nose-bleed, bathroom sinks are nearby. Fifth Floor Reading Room. If you’re not ready to hit up the dance club that is the third floor main reading room with...
...charge it, find a computer running Windows XP--we're a Mac shop around here--stare down a cryptic error message and update some software. The half-second delay when you press the turn-the-page button eventually becomes maddening, and you can't scribble in the Reader's virtual margins. Nor can you throw it across the room, should its contents displease you, since it costs...
...evening with a set of remarkable songs, culminating in a lyrical ode to Africa. Jimmy Wales, inventor of Wikipedia, met with Richard Dawkins, the biologist and outspoken atheist, to explain why Dawkins' attempts to edit Wikipedia entries kept being rejected. Philip Rosedale, creator of the popular Second Life, a virtual world online, crisscrossed the cocktail floor in search of Suzanne Vega, the noted singer, whom he had met on Second Life but never in person. Each table was a microcosm of the TIME 100 issue, with leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs joining in conversation...