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...authorities in Beijing have a more realistic take on the power of the Net. They realize that most people aren't going to use it to rally for democracy; they're going to do what Americans do: gossip about celebrities, check the weather, play games and score porn. So the Internet police mostly leave that stuff alone. Wu says the state of the Chinese Internet is even more ominous than total control: "It feels almost normal, so people don't think about what it is they can't get." If anything, the Web has been a galvanizing force for Chinese...
...Also absent is a news ticker feature that Motorola and Cingular introduced in the V557. Right there on the phone's home screen is a little ticker of weather and news headlines, pulled down at regular intervals. If a feature like that is ever going to gain popularity, it's going to have to grace a sexier phone...
...biking yesterday around the Mall in 60-degree-weather, I realized that there might be some validity to this global warming idea. From small efforts to build ethanol and biodiesel vehicles to completely altering America’s fleet of 200 million automobiles to run on hydrogen, curbing global warming will take dramatic action, not just dramatic rhetoric. A first step is a dollar tax on gasoline, an approach that has been derided by corporate America. Tonight, I can no longer allow the destruction of our world to go unchecked in the interest of ExxonMobil’s $36 billion...
That is, unless this year’s balmy winter weather continues...
...People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP); as Prime Minister of Mongolia; in Ulan Bator. The MPRP withdrew from the governing coalition last month to protest former Prime Minister Tsakhia Elbegdorj's economic policies, prompting Elbegdorj to resign and hundreds of supporters on both sides to rally outside parliament in freezing weather. Enkhbold, the former mayor of the capital, Ulan Bator, has promised to fight government corruption and attract investors to the mineral-rich country...