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Wikipedia operates on a revolutionary principle: Any visitor to the site may add to it or edit it. Any visitor can create new articles, change old ones, add pictures or sounds, and so on. As a defense against malicious ne’er-do-wells who cruise around the ‘net with nothing better to do than delete whole pages about Confucius or Kant, the entire revision history of every article—that is, a copy of every version of the article that has ever been posted—is available for perusal alongside the current draft...
...host family agrees to provide a bed and three meals a day for a student and to treat the visitor as a family member, meting out both chores and hugs. The students come with health insurance and spending money. Some affluent empty nesters treat their kids to travel and other goodies, but hosts don't have to spend much, says Inge Gabel. "I always cook for more than two anyway," she says, "and we live near Niagara Falls and take all our kids there...
...desk, where she controlled the switchboard and single phone line, kept her up-to-date on the dorm’s romantic drama. It even gave her the chance to broadcast information about friends’ dates using a code. One buzz was a phone call; two, a female visitor; three, a male visitor. Staccato buzzes meant an attractive male...
...other modern conurbation. It's in Asahikawa on the island of Hokkaido, a quiet northern city of 360,000. Since 1997, the Asahiyama Zoo, tel: (81-166) 361104, has renovated nearly half of its animal exhibits in delightfully creative ways, designed to benefit the inhabitants as much as the visitors. Zoo director Masao Kosuge installed a water tube for the spotted seals, gave the panthers rock ledges to nestle on, and lets the king penguins out of their enclosure for a daily (albeit supervised) stroll through the zoo grounds. Monkeys are no longer fed from bowls but forage happily...
...weeks ago, Sharon privately told a U.S. visitor that he liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and halt the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The persistence of such attacks could jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is viewed...