<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Lindsay Young's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:48:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:04:43 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>More Bloggers Being Sued for Libel</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bloggers are increasingly not immune to being sued for libel.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/03/384792-more-bloggers-being-sued-for-libel</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/03/384792-more-bloggers-being-sued-for-libel</guid><category>technology</category><category>lawsuit</category><category>blogs</category><category>bloggers</category><category>law</category><category>libel</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Money in the Bank?</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/26/269205-money-in-the-bank</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/26/269205-money-in-the-bank</guid><category>dollar</category><category>china</category><category>economy</category><category>collapse</category><category>banking</category><category>world-news</category><category>yuan</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:47:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Microsoft Launches Pay-As-You-Go Computers</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/22/214839-microsoft-launches-pay-as-you-go-computers</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/22/214839-microsoft-launches-pay-as-you-go-computers</guid><category>microsoft</category><category>gates</category><category>computers</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Trouble at Toyota</title>
<description><![CDATA[A look behind the sexual harassment suit roiling the carmaker.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/15/197800-trouble-at-toyota</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/15/197800-trouble-at-toyota</guid><category>toyota</category><category>law</category><category>us-news</category><category>automotive</category><category>sexual-harassment</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Abuse of Disabled Not Only in Romania: 1 Group Tries to Help</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/10/193607-abuse-of-disabled-not-only-in-romania-1-group-tries-to-help</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/10/193607-abuse-of-disabled-not-only-in-romania-1-group-tries-to-help</guid><category>romania</category><category>disabled</category><category>health</category><category>armenia</category><category>mental-health</category><category>communist</category><category>psychiatric-hospitals</category><category>soviet-republics</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 03:38:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Lithuania's 'Stalin's World' Theme Park</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/03/185753-lithuanias-stalins-world-theme-park</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/03/185753-lithuanias-stalins-world-theme-park</guid><category>lenin</category><category>tourism</category><category>world-news</category><category>stalin</category><category>theme-park</category><category>communism</category><category>soviet</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 May 2006 04:26:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Can Starbucks Blend into France?</title>
<description><![CDATA[The coffee chain is staging a French invasion. Will it succeed in the ultimate cafe nation?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/26/178903-can-starbucks-blend-into-france</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/26/178903-can-starbucks-blend-into-france</guid><category>business</category><category>starbucks</category><category>coffee</category><category>cafe</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:26:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Wal-Mart: Rapping On India's Door</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/25/177719-wal-mart-rapping-on-indias-door</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/25/177719-wal-mart-rapping-on-indias-door</guid><category>business</category><category>india</category><category>retail</category><category>wal-mart</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:32:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Home Depot: One Foot In China</title>
<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/25/177716-home-depot-one-foot-in-china</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/25/177716-home-depot-one-foot-in-china</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>retail</category><category>home-depot</category><category>nardelli</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Algeria Forbids Efforts to Convert Its Muslims</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/07/159357-algeria-forbids-efforts-to-convert-its-muslims</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/07/159357-algeria-forbids-efforts-to-convert-its-muslims</guid><category>muslim</category><category>violence</category><category>religion</category><category>islam</category><category>algeria</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Let's Have More Babies!</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/04/156135-lets-have-more-babies</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/04/156135-lets-have-more-babies</guid><category>europe</category><category>immigration</category><category>children</category><category>jewish</category><category>world-news</category><category>third-world</category><category>catholicism</category><category>birth-rate</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:52:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Wall-Eyed</title>
<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/148743-wall-eyed</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/148743-wall-eyed</guid><category>wall</category><category>mexico</category><category>immigration</category><category>illegal</category><category>u-s</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:37:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Blowing Smoke</title>
<description><![CDATA[Would the drug czar's proposal to increase drug testing in U.S. schools really make a difference? Slate looks at the issue.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/24/144922-blowing-smoke</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/24/144922-blowing-smoke</guid><category>bush</category><category>drugs</category><category>politics</category><category>education</category><category>us-news</category><category>high-school</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Slowly, Africa Starts to Care for AIDS Children</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/08/125540-slowly-africa-starts-to-care-for-aids-children</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/08/125540-slowly-africa-starts-to-care-for-aids-children</guid><category>health</category><category>charity</category><category>aids</category><category>hiv</category><category>world-news</category><category>retroviral-drugs</category><pubDate>Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:30:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How Effective Are Sanctions?</title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. has used economic sanctions against other countries more than any other nation. But do they work?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/22/106279-how-effective-are-sanctions</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/22/106279-how-effective-are-sanctions</guid><category>united-states</category><category>world-news</category><category>sanctions</category><category>u-s-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:50:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Doing Business With North Korea</title>
<description><![CDATA["A few Americans are doing business with the thugs running North Korea. What are they thinking?"]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/17/100502-doing-business-with-north-korea</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/17/100502-doing-business-with-north-korea</guid><category>business</category><category>north-korea</category><category>world-news</category><category>pyongyang</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:39:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Russia: Shoppers Gone Wild</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/14/96895-russia-shoppers-gone-wild</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/14/96895-russia-shoppers-gone-wild</guid><category>business</category><category>russia</category><category>world</category><category>shopping</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Cracks In (China's) Wall: Hackers May Tear it Down</title>
<description><![CDATA["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."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/13/96095-cracks-in-chinas-wall-hackers-may-tear-it-down</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/13/96095-cracks-in-chinas-wall-hackers-may-tear-it-down</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>tech</category><category>hackers</category><category>communist-party</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Falun Gong Fighting China's Firewalls</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/10/92738-falun-gong-fighting-chinas-firewalls</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/10/92738-falun-gong-fighting-chinas-firewalls</guid><category>china</category><category>internet</category><category>world-news</category><category>firewall</category><category>falun-gong</category><category>community-party</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:34:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is Washington Losing Latin America?</title>
<description><![CDATA["Washington's tattered relations with Latin America have mainly translated into a series of lost opportunities for both sides.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/10/92708-is-washington-losing-latin-america</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/10/92708-is-washington-losing-latin-america</guid><category>bush</category><category>latin-america</category><category>united-states</category><category>world-news</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:20:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Women, Islam, and the New Iraq</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/10/92704-women-islam-and-the-new-iraq</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/10/92704-women-islam-and-the-new-iraq</guid><category>iraq</category><category>muslim</category><category>world</category><category>washington-d-c</category><category>world-news</category><category>sharia</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:19:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>In China, To Get Rich Is Glorious</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/30/75411-in-china-to-get-rich-is-glorious</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/30/75411-in-china-to-get-rich-is-glorious</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>world</category><category>world-news</category><category>millionaires</category><category>rich</category><category>forbes</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:05:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>India, India Everywhere</title>
<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/26/71268-india-india-everywhere</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/26/71268-india-india-everywhere</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>india</category><category>investors</category><category>world-news</category><category>davos</category><category>world-economic-forum</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:11:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Flying in a Snit</title>
<description><![CDATA["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."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/25/70328-flying-in-a-snit</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/25/70328-flying-in-a-snit</guid><category>business</category><category>travel</category><category>us-news</category><category>9-11</category><category>flying</category><category>etiquette</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:31:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>India history spat hits US</title>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lindsay Young]]></source><link>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/24/69109-india-history-spat-hits-us</link><guid>http://lyoung.newsvine.com/_news/2006/01/24/69109-india-history-spat-hits-us</guid><category>history</category><category>india</category><category>world</category><category>education</category><category>california</category><category>u-s</category><category>us-news</category><category>textbooks</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:38:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>
