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But the compulsory patriotism prescribed by Slota's party, which is a junior member of the governing coalition and has been embroiled in alleged corruption scandals for years, has irked many residents, who argue that it will have the opposite effect. "If you want to foster patriotism you must set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patriotism by Decree in Slovakia | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

Galen T. Danskin, an outraged Wellesley junior who called Her Campus’ attitude towards transgender people “really offensive,” said that anger on campus has been widespread and that a petition to end the Wellesley section of HerCampus.com has now garnered over 250 signatures...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Controversy Hits Her Campus | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

When Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was convicted in December of subverting the state after he helped organize a democracy petition, the only protesters gathered outside the Beijing courtroom were foreign diplomats waiting to tell a pack of Western journalists that their governments officially condemned the verdict.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong Getting Any Closer to Real Democracy? | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

Sendek is the brains behind a burgeoning Internet effort to make hella- an officially recognized scientific-unit prefix, representing the magnitude of 1.0x1027, expressed by the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. What started as a joke between a few of Sendek's friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hellabytes? A Campaign to Turn Slang into Science | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

Just days before Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's scheduled inauguration on Feb. 25, his defeated rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, withdrew her petition to annul the election. She then challenged the government to hold a no-confidence vote, believing that opponents do not have enough support to oust her. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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