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...made no effort to censure their owners. "We're not going to sit down and shut up," she told the cheering crowd. "Thank you for standing up." The events in Arizona and Nevada failed to mask the widening splits in Palin's party about tactics and direction. One sign in Searchlight read: "No more RINOs [Republicans in name only]--Retire McCain." Another said: "Reid-McCain: Two sides of the same damn coin. Vote them...
...Nahayan--half brother of United Arab Emirates President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan--was retrieved from a Moroccan lake on March 31, five days after his glider crashed there. The death of Sheik Ahmed--managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds--has raised fears of a power struggle among his 17 surviving brothers for control of ADIA...
Since Google unveiled plans in February to build - for free - an ultra-fast fiber-optic network in one or more U.S. cities, local officials across the land have been engaged in quirky battles of one-upmanship to get their hometown chosen as a demo site. Topeka, Kans., renamed itself Google for the month of March. The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., went swimming in a shark tank as a publicity stunt. And Greenville organized a "We Are Feeling Lucky" campaign - a play on Google's second most famous search button - with enough glow sticks to form a massive Google logo...
Competition is stiff: as of March 26, the deadline for cities to submit information, Google said it had received more than 1,100 applications. It will analyze each city's demographics and infrastructure before deciding on one or more locations by the end of the year. "One of the top things we're looking for is to develop the network as quickly and efficiently as possible," spokesman Dan Martin says. "We're not looking for special treatment, but we do want to find a community that wants to work with...
...other country--according to an Amnesty International report published March 30. The human-rights organization said it was unable to give an exact figure, citing China's "lack of transparency," and it called on the government to end its secrecy surrounding capital trials and state executions. China was one of 18 countries Amnesty listed as "known to have carried out executions" in the past year. Iran executed at least 388 people, Iraq at least 120 and Saudi Arabia at least 69. The total of 714 documented judicial killings outside China--a low estimate, Amnesty says--includes...