Nov. 11 bookmarks
[2007/11/11 - 2007/11/12]
- 11/12 00:18, 2007引述 :『Texas still accounts for more than half of all executions in the United States. But a strange thing is happening in the state that has executed more prisoners than any other since the U.S. Supreme Court revived the death penalty in 1976 after a brief hiatus. Texas prosecutors are less willing to seek, and juries are less willing to grant, capital punishment for aggravated murder. In 2006, only 15 Texas convicts were sentenced to death, down from 34 a decade earlier. Texas mirrors a national trend: death-penalty sentences in the 38 states that allow capital punishment dropped from 317 in 1996 to 128 in 2005, the latest year for which statistics are available.()
Why the reluctance to populate death row? Polls show popular support for capital punishment stays relatively high, at about 65 percent. But when it comes to carrying out death sentences, the people involved—judges and juries, prosecutors and prison officials—are starting to recoil, or at least pull back.』 - 11/12 00:00, 2007引述 :『WASHINGTON - A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.()
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.
Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.
Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.』 - 11/11 23:57, 2007引述 :『Millions of units of the popular toys, which are sold as Aqua Dots in the United States and as Bindeez in Australia, were recalled in those countries as well as Britain, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere this past week after children began falling sick from swallowing the toy's bead-like parts.()
The recall is the latest in a slew of product quality scandals that has tarnished China's image as an exporter of reliable goods. The government has tried to shore up the country's reputation by increasing inspections, selectively punishing companies and launching a publicity campaign to boost quality.』 - 11/11 23:54, 2007引述 :『The AP found that states took action against the licenses of 2,570 educators from 2001 through 2005 following allegations of sexual misbehavior, and that investigators and academics who study the problem believe it is badly underreported. There are about 3 million public school teachers nationwide.()
The Peterson case has similarities to many of the incidents that the AP examined. The student was troubled, the teacher popular. She was trusted in the community and viewed as "cool" by students, who would gather at her classroom and at her home. Authorities, when rumors started, decided not to immediately pull the teacher from the classroom.』 - 11/11 22:43, 2007引述 :『比利時早於二OO七年六月十日就已經國會大選完畢，然而至今因為荷語區與法語區的政黨無法形成共識，因此組成新聯邦政府的談判一直破裂，目前已經一百五十天沒有政府，創下了比利時本身的歷史紀錄。比利時王國大小只有30500平方公里，比台灣略小，人口約為一千一百萬人，也是台灣的二分之一不到，於一八三O年從荷蘭分裂獨立成為主權國家。比利時的人口分佈，以講荷語的弗萊明人佔多數，大約為六百多萬人，講法語的瓦隆人為四百多萬人，以及講德語的日耳曼民族，大約是七萬五千人，不到全國總人口的百分之一。在最初獨立之時，比利時是一個以法語為主的國家，但是荷語區的人口一直比較眾多。在荷語區布魯塞爾的居民，也因為政府的主要語言是法語，因此逐漸成為以法文為主的居民，如今形成一個在荷語區內部，以弗萊明人為主，卻八成以上講法文的特殊『布魯塞爾人』。』()
- 11/11 22:39, 2007引述 :『台灣海峽北方鄰接的東海海域，是北京與東京兩政府在近年來領海爭執最嚴重的區域，原因出自於東海海床天然氣的開採權。同時台灣海峽的轄治權也是華府與東京政府非常重視的議題，這也可以推敲出台灣海峽所以可能被美國當作準內海的原因，也說明美日安保條約為何會將所含蓋的範圍擴充到整個區域。』()
- 11/11 22:32, 2007引述 :『即然是蠢人大競賽，在耍蠢上這個前清華大學校長劉炯朗自然也不會輸給前暨南大學校長李家同。於是他當然也不會知道，在一個民主社會之中，政治、經濟和選舉問題向來都是綁在一起，相互影響，相互牽制的，而這也是現代民主制度最引以為傲的部份。因為如此一來便沒有任何一個單獨的人或團體，可以左右社會的發展，一切都是眾人的不同力量拉扯所得。物價上漲當然是事實，但是唯一有能力解決的卻是民眾本身，因為沒有任何一個政府有�』()
- 11/11 16:36, 2007引述 :『Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. -- Mercer head coach Mark Slonaker.()
從11月8日起，NCAA連續三天出現超級大冷門。8日，Gardner-Webb以84-68擊敗全美排名20的Kentucky；這場球只是UK新教頭Billy Gillispie的第二場球，很慘，準備被無情的野貓迷轟到滿頭包。9日，Belmont以86-75擊敗Cincinnati。10日，Mercer再以96-81擊敗全美第18的南加大(USC)，USC的超級大一新生O.J. Mayo獨得32分，但還是無力回天。』
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