Month: April 2003
“SARS in provincial China” by Chris Berman, in which he quotes an email from a friend in China. From
;My friends in the university next door to mine have been told to stay in after two students were whisked off with suspected SARS; here at my place we were given kits containing some kind of medicine, a thermometer, and a packet of facemasks. We have to take a thermometer reading every morning and contact…
The New York Times is 20 days
The New York Times is 20 days late with this story about the Recording Industry Association of America filing suit against four university students for swapping music files. The suit was first announced April 3.
Bup kudas is the name of the Iba
Bup Kudus is the name of the Iban-language Bible recently banned in Malaysia.
“A Century in Flight” by Johnathon E. Briggs from the
;I’m fascinated by them. What’s at work is an enthusiasm for conspiracy theories that operates in lots of areas in modern life. Sort of, “Wouldn’t it be fun if everybody was wrong about a big issue like this and somebody else had really done this?”
“We heard the same story repeated over and over again. Even the most innocuous of our neighbours, we discovered, had extraordinary tales of 1947: chartered accountants could tell tales of single-handedly fighting off baying mobs; men from grey government ministries would emerge as the heroes of bloody street battles. Everything these people now possessed was…
“For myself I wondered at that moment if I could ever live a normal life, a nonfugitive life, after all this, after all that I’d been through. It seemed impossible that there was a life beyond the river, beyond the mountain of broken brick. I wondered if I would ever eat a hot dog at…
Non-war deeds politicians committed while you were trying to convince yourself that the blobs on the
Non-war deeds politicians committed while you were trying to convince yourself that the blobs on the network vid-phone feeds were tanks and not compression artifacts: Back-office transactions. Front-office transactions.
More than 30 million Russians live belo
More than 30 million Russians live below the breadline, an income equivalent to less than $65 a month.