Shakuntala Devi mathamatical prodigy, born in Bangalore daughter of a circus performer, her father was a tightrope walker and human cannonball. Hong Kong cull continues as bird flu alert hits new level. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing gets a dusting of white after the first snowfall of the winter.

The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal.

Craig Newmark explains his view of the Obama tech administration.

We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving images with the same ease we have for words.

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While these "gate-barring songs" are reserved mainly for tourists and official guests, the Dong song-style is a form of communication every child learns from the age of 5. "And they sing on key, on rhythm, perfectly a capella, in tune with one another," Tan says.

OPTA, the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority of the Netherlands, has announced draft policy rules governing tariffs for access to fiber networks from KPN-Reggefiber.

"The chancellor of the D.C. system, Michelle Rhee, has proposed an innovative teachers' contract that could allow her to reward the best teachers and dismiss the bad ones. Educators everywhere are watching to see what Obama says and does.

Bob Dylan. "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta," Dyland said in a 1978 interview with Playboy magazine.

Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users in Anonymizing Networks. Anonymizing networks such as Tor allow users to access Internet services privately by using a series of routers to hide the client's IP address from the server.