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...www.economiccrisis.com still available? VeriSign, which manages Internet domain-name registrations, reports that 17% fewer com and other standard Web addresses were registered in the fourth quarter of 2008 than in the same period in 2007, a slump analysts say may indicate a slowdown in new online businesses and advertising. Total registrations worldwide continue to grow, driven by demand in countries like China (.cn) and Germany...
With an estimated 300 million Web users--the most in the world--China is struggling with an epidemic of Internet obsession among its youth. Since the establishment in 2004 of the country's first Internet-addiction-treatment facility, the China Youth Mental Health Center, more than 3,000 patients have been treated there. (See 10 things to do in Beijing...
...based Center for Internet Addiction Recovery classifies the condition as compulsive behavior in which "the Internet becomes the organizing principle of addicts' lives." According to guidelines set by Tao Ran, director of the Beijing center and a colonel in the People's Liberation Army, using the Web for six consecutive hours a day for three straight months constitutes an addiction...
...news article "Finalclub.org Passes Punch" gave an incorrect name for the Web site Finalsclub.org in its headline. It is not Finalclub.org. Due to an editing error, the article also did not give the name and title of Professor of Chemistry Stuart L. Schreiber, who was quoted in the piece...
...perhaps meant to imitate the sound of the bits of food as they hit the boiling water.“Shabu-shabu was historically eaten by Genghis Kahn and his hordes of fierce warriors as they trekked across the harsh terrains of Central Asia,” touts the Web site of the square’s latest addition to its shabu landscape, Shabu-Ya. The restaurant is owned by the same guys who operate another Asian fusion restaurant directly below Shabu-Ya, Shilla. According to one over-eager, smiley waiter, soldiers made the first hot pot out of their...