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...applications currently being developed for the G1 be? How fast will T-Mobile's 3G network work in cities like Memphis and Miami? And how well will Google's browser-based applications, including Google Docs, work on the G1? We'll let you know what we think as soon as we road test the G1 next month...
Even by Chinese standards, this month's carnage has been extraordinary. First came a mudslide that obliterated much of a mining village in the province of Shanxi on Sept. 8. The official death toll was 265, but some Chinese media reports - soon suppressed - said it may have been much higher. The incident was blamed on corruption and failed regulatory oversight and resulted in the resignations of the province's governor and his deputy (they resigned without being charged with a specific crime). Soon after, three accidents in coal mines killed another 79 people, and a disco fire - once again blamed...
...headache. That only fixes the problem, not the system," Professor Hu of the Beijing Institute of Technology wrote in his essay. "Now is the time to transform the way of thinking, to repair the system." Beijing-based China scholar Russell Leigh Moses isn't optimistic that will happen anytime soon. The problem is "not so much political or structural as psychological. The top leadership can't get over their anxiety that any structural reform will mean the end of one-party rule," Moses says. "They are more and more out of step with the public, and even though there...
...seismic change in the past half year. In April, Dahal and his Maoists won a majority of seats in an assembly charged with the task of reshaping a country that had existed for over two centuries under a rigid, feudal monarchy. Nepal's last king vacated the royal palace soon after, in June, and Dahal, who only a few years back was a fugitive in his own country, was sworn in as Prime Minister on Aug. 18. From the ashes of a civil war that claimed over 13,000 lives, his Maoist-led government now intends to revitalize...
...Giovanni da Silva, de Menezes's brother, said that the three-year wait for the public inquest has been torturous. "Since they killed Jean Charles our mother has been depressed and very sick," he told the BBC at his home in Gonzaga, Brazil. "We just want this to end soon so we can have some relief." He and his mother will attend the inquest for one month, beginning in October...