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More Bloggers Being Sued for Libel
Seeded on Tue Oct 3, 2006 2:49 PM EDT (USA Today)
Bloggers are increasingly not immune to being sued for libel.
Money in the Bank?
Seeded on Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:47 PM EDT (Forbes)
For a country still only 5% of the world economy, China's share of mind -the degree to which its economic affairs attract international notice - is outsized.
Microsoft Launches Pay-As-You-Go Computers
Seeded on Mon May 22, 2006 6:20 PM EDT (Forbes)
A customer who buys a FlexGo-powered PC would pay half the normal retail price at a shop, and would from then on purchase pre-paid cards to get hourly access.
Trouble at Toyota
Seeded on Mon May 15, 2006 6:32 PM EDT (Business Week)
A look behind the sexual harassment suit roiling the carmaker.
Abuse of Disabled Not Only in Romania: 1 Group Tries to Help
Wed May 10, 2006 11:38 PM EDT
A report came out this week chronicling Romania's treatment of some of its most vulnerable – tens of thousands of mentally disabled children and adults shoveled into state facilities each year for lack of family or someone to take them in.
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Lithuania's 'Stalin's World' Theme Park
Seeded on Wed May 3, 2006 12:26 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Grutas Park, a quirky theme park dotted with relics of Lithuania's communist past, has become a major tourist attraction in this former Soviet republic.
Can Starbucks Blend into France?
Seeded on Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:26 PM EDT (Business Week)
The coffee chain is staging a French invasion. Will it succeed in the ultimate cafe nation?
Wal-Mart: Rapping On India's Door
Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:32 PM EDT (Business Week)
Wal-Mart sets up a "liaison office" in India. It may be looking to lobby India to let in foreign retailers. Locals are fighting it.
Home Depot: One Foot In China
Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:31 PM EDT (Business Week)
Has Home Depot waited too long to jump into the China market? And does it have what it takes to transform its stores into something that will work there?
Algeria Forbids Efforts to Convert Its Muslims
Seeded on Fri Apr 7, 2006 1:50 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Algeria has passed a law prohibiting efforts to convert Muslims to another religion. The move seems aimed at maintaining stability after the Islamist violence that had plagued the country for a decade.
Let's Have More Babies!
Seeded on Tue Apr 4, 2006 11:52 AM EDT (Forbes)
Europe (and the West) in particular is producing fewer and fewer children, with a high percentage of those who are born coming from immigrant families. But even in the Third World birth rates are rapidly slowing down.
Wall-Eyed
Seeded on Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:37 PM EST (Forbes)
A look at the proposed 700-mile wall between the U.S. and Mexico (at a cost of $8 billion). Can it really make a difference in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants?
Blowing Smoke
Seeded on Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:46 AM EST (Slate)
Would the drug czar's proposal to increase drug testing in U.S. schools really make a difference? Slate looks at the issue.
Slowly, Africa Starts to Care for AIDS Children
Seeded on Wed Mar 8, 2006 4:30 PM EST (The New York Times)
Children with AIDS in Africa were generally considered a lost cause as late as a year ago. But the availability of cheaper drugs is slowly changing that.
How Effective Are Sanctions?
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:50 PM EST (Forbes)
The U.S. has used economic sanctions against other countries more than any other nation. But do they work?
Doing Business With North Korea
Seeded on Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:39 PM EST (Forbes)
"A few Americans are doing business with the thugs running North Korea. What are they thinking?"
Russia: Shoppers Gone Wild
Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:44 PM EST (Business Week)
Russian consumers are fueling an incredible spending spree at high-priced Western-style shopping malls in Russia's top cities. Still the average income in Russia is just $300 a month.
Cracks In (China's) Wall: Hackers May Tear it Down
Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:03 PM EST (Forbes)
"With engineering help from half a dozen Western firms, the Chinese Communist Party has erected a huge apparatus to censor free speech. A ragtag crew of hacker dissidents may succeed in tearing it down."
Falun Gong Fighting China's Firewalls
Seeded on Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:34 PM EST (Forbes)
Oppressed Chinese spiritual group Falun Gong is leading an underground campaign to hack China's Internet firewalls to counter the Chinese Communist Party's news blackout and propaganda in the Middle Kingdom.
Is Washington Losing Latin America?
Seeded on Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:20 PM EST (The New York Times)
"Washington's tattered relations with Latin America have mainly translated into a series of lost opportunities for both sides.
Women, Islam, and the New Iraq
Seeded on Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:19 PM EST (foreignaffairs.org)
Islam as the law of the land for Iraq may not mean trouble for Iraq's women. Sharia is open to a wide range of interpretations, and as this article states, some are quite egalitarian.
In China, To Get Rich Is Glorious
Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:05 AM EST (Business Week)
China is embracing its millionaires now, a switch from a few years back when many were jailed and targeted for more taxes after Forbes featured them as the country's newly rich. More than 300,000 Chinese have a net worth over $1 million, excluding property.
India, India Everywhere
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:11 PM EST (The New York Times)
India is all over the World Economic Forum in Davos trying to promote itself as the world's next economic superstar, and as a democratic alternative to China for foreign investors. Is its claim credible?
Flying in a Snit
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:31 PM EST (The New York Times)
"Etiquette in the air took a turn for the worse after 9/11, as travelers' frustrations over long lines and intrusive security checks boiled over, and it sank even more last year as planes grew as crowded as cattle cars."
India history spat hits US
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:38 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
Not surprisingly, there are glaring errors in U.S. textbooks on the history of India. In California, they are trying to fix them with the help of Indian history scholars. Unfortunately, there are some revisionists in the fray.
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