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...What They're Returning in Chile: The images of looting that have dominated dispatches from Chile since an 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the country Feb. 27 gave way to an unexpected scene: during an informal amnesty period--and prodded by some 14,000 troops--filchers returned $2 million in stolen goods, loading them into police trucks. A poll found 85% of Chileans want looters prosecuted...
...many Best Picture nominees; Twilight's dreamboat stars were trotted out like a big undead parade; and in a lousy economy, free TV is a cheap date. But another reason may be the likes of Twitter and Facebook - new media that aren't replacing TV but creating a new way to watch it. (See pictures of James Cameron's special effects...
...Alec Baldwin's duologue with their Facebook friends. It's doubtful people tuned in by the millions to see the Oscars' interpretative-dance number, in which performers did the robot to the score of Up. Or maybe they did, but to make fun of it together. (In a way, social media are better for bad TV than for good TV, like ketchup on a mediocre burger...
...It’s a moment to really revisit the way in which we are instructing students about respect for intellectual property,” Harris says. “Some of the certitude surrounding intellectual property is breaking down, and scholarship cannot flourish in a world in which integrity is absent or diminished...
We’ve got a long way to go before we can compete with them...