Sderot And Gaza Third Letters
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First I love that Sderot is a small town, a close knit community, where everyone knows everyone. When you take a taxi here to someone’s house, you just tell the taxi driver the surname of the family, and he usually knows who they are and brings you right there.
Most of my life revolves around the [...]
Novel Tells The Story Of Thwarted Ambition
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A NOVEL about life in a 1970s comprehensive school has been published after lying in a Porthcawl film-maker’s drawer for more than 30 years.
Anthony Hontoir, now 52, was 19 when he began Free and Easy, a story that resulted from frustration at a decision not to let him study biology up to O-level.
That, he believes, [...]
Coding for Dollars - and Bragging Rights
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Thunderdome for Devs
As an online software developers’ community, TopCoder.com is a chat room, practice range and gladiatorial arena for more than 145,000 members who compete for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Membership is free, said Hughes’ brother and cofounder, Robert Hughes, 38, TopCoder’s chief operating officer.
Online competition directly contributes to TopCoder’s business , which [...]
Wikipedia in the Newsroom, Part 1: Slowly Gaining Acceptance
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Common Source
What all three had in common was one of the sources they cited: Wikipedia , the popular, reader-written and -edited online encyclopedia. Dismissed by traditional journalism as a gimmicky source of faux information almost since it debuted in 2001, Wikipedia may be gaining some cautious converts as it works its way into the mainstream, [...]
Wikipedia in the Newsroom, Part 1: Slowly Gaining Acceptance
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Common Source
What all three had in common was one of the sources they cited: Wikipedia , the popular, reader-written and -edited online encyclopedia. Dismissed by traditional journalism as a gimmicky source of faux information almost since it debuted in 2001, Wikipedia may be gaining some cautious converts as it works its way into the mainstream, [...]
OPINIONMicrosoft, Sun Taking the Right Interop Path
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Making Progress
Now, today, we’re part more of the way there. It’s still the Microsoft roach motel — service message calls go in but they can’t come out. But there seem to be more ways for the roaches to move around, which may lead to even more openness if the little buggers can chew long enough.
The [...]
Japanese poetry endures in South Korea
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When Son Ho Yun published her poetry, South Korean writers denounced her as unpatriotic.
When Rhee Han Soo wrote his poems, he avoided discussing them with friends because he was certain he would get the same negative response.
Although they never met, Son and Rhee shared a passion for more than six decades: They each wrote traditional [...]
In Africa wars spill over borders
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NGALA, Nigeria - Africa’s newest refugees squat on dingy, donated mattresses as they tuck into the rice and stew that aid workers are ladling into blue plastic bowls, turning yet another abandoned building into a temporary home.
Tens of thousands of people fled when rebels attacked the capital of Chad last month, and at one point [...]
Rice Toughens Talk Against Chavez
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BRASILIA, Brazil - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that all U.N. nations, including Venezuela, have an obligation to go after terrorists and keep them from operating within their borders.The comment was largely a warning shot for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who U.S. officials suspect has lent support to Colombian rebels. In recent days, [...]
NAFTA Seen Differently in Ohio Texas
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LAREDO, Texas - If the shuttered factories that dot the Ohio landscape tell the story of NAFTA, so too do the miles of trucks carrying auto parts, fruit and tequila across the Mexican border through this booming port city in South Texas.Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton roundly condemn NAFTA, the North American Free [...]
