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...point in January after a China-based cyberattack on Gmail. Google then vowed to stop self-censoring--a move that, according to a Beijing spokesman on March 12, would have "consequences." Ironically, those consequences might be gravest for China. The $600 million that Google could earn in China this year pales in comparison with the company's $22 billion global annual revenue. The pullout, however, could adversely affect Chinese start...
Reports of sexual assault in the military increased 11% last year, according to a Department of Defense study released on March 16. While the study did not conclusively explain the increase, the Pentagon called the rise in reports "encouraging" and suggested that a 2005 sexual-assault-policy overhaul might be part of the reason more victims have come forward. The study also highlighted a 16% increase in sexual assaults occurring in combat areas. The typical case involved an 18-to-25-year-old enlisted male and a female victim (either military or civilian). The report estimates that only...
...Phelps has accepted his final assignment. Graves, best known as the implacable leader of TV's Mission: Impossible team from 1967 to '73, died March 14 at 83. Thus ended a 60-year career in which his flinty features, suitable for carving on Mount Rushmore, and his sonorous baritone made him one of the small screen's leading authority figures--an eminence he occasionally subverted in irreverent comedies like Airplane! and Men in Black...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS, the 89-year-old Supreme Court Justice who leads the court's liberals, suggesting that President Obama will likely nominate his successor...
...this year's South by Southwest Interactive conference is the third birthday of Twitter, which first became popular there in 2007. But users who attended a keynote ... with the site's chief executive, Evan Williams, [headed for the door early and tweeted their gripes] ... after Williams failed to offer new details on how the company plans to generate revenue...