Oct. 30-Nov. 1 bookmarks
[2007/10/30 - 2007/11/01]
- 11/01 23:26, 2007引述 :『不過，此間「新歐洲週報」在它最新一期刊載的「臺灣戳到索拉納的中國夢」專文中卻指出，布魯塞爾的政治觀察家們，對於索拉納的聲明感到驚訝，並認為他聲明的目的是為了「安撫中國」。至於為何如此，則表示未得到清楚的答案。』()
- 11/01 06:07, 2007引述 :『華生自己的是DNA研究，更讓他相信，舉凡癌症、禿頭，乃至肥胖、精神疾病，這些原來認為是後天環境、飲食與生活習慣形成的，結果發現都是基因造成的，「如果有人肝不好，我們怪基因，那如果腦子不好，我們怪學校，合理嗎？」，如果經由植入變造基因，可以治療疾病，那智力又何嘗不能呢？()
在事後的「澄清」聲明中，華生並沒有否認講過這些話，全世界相關學界，也不意外，因為自豪「講真話」的華生前科累累，包括：「愚笨」基因，是可以篩檢出來的，胖子較難被僱用，因為他們缺乏進取心，太陽光與深色皮膚是拉丁情人性激素的來源，但沒有一項比種族更敏感。』 - 11/01 06:00, 2007引述 :『世界經濟論壇（ＷＥＦ）昨日公布最新全球競爭力評比，台灣的排名第十四名，較去年滑落一名；南韓今年競爭力大躍進，由去年第廿三名進步為今年的十一名，在主要國家中名次進步最多，並且首度超越台灣。()
值得注意的是，無論在財政赤字、還是政府債務，及對政治人物信賴方面，台灣都大幅落後，影響總體排名。』 - 11/01 05:48, 2007引述 :『外國人在日本的犯罪從一九九零年代起急速增加，成為以東京為首的大都市治安惡化的主因之一，並形成日本嚴重的社會問題。長期以來中國人在日本的犯罪一直維持排名首位，特別是以闖空門等竊盜犯行為最，殺人罪也常與中國人有關，造成日本國民的反感。()
日本警察廳今年上半年的統計指出，檢舉外國人在日本犯罪的件數共達一萬七千六百二十六件，其中六千兩百六十五件是中國人的犯行，占總數的百分之三十五點五，高居首位，巴西以百分之二十一點四排名第二。』 - 11/01 05:37, 2007引述 :『菲律賓總統艾若育廿五日宣布特赦上個月才因貪汙被判處無期徒刑的前總統艾斯特瑞達，菲國各界反應兩極。()
艾斯特瑞達的辯護律師幾天前曾以「國家利益」為由，籲請艾若育特赦艾斯特瑞達。艾若育發言人表示特赦係基於艾斯特瑞達已屆七十歲，符合釋放的規定。
發言人表示艾斯特瑞達獲釋後，遭褫奪的公權將得以恢復，但他已保證不再參選。法院從艾斯特瑞達銀行帳戶沒收的八千七百萬美元，將不予發還。』 - 11/01 05:19, 2007引述 :『As Asian markets surge ahead, tiny Cambodia—short on credit but big on ambition—is rushing to join the crowd. The country has been moving full speed ahead since Sept. 6, when it announced an agreement with the Korea Exchange to launch a Cambodian stock exchange by 2009—and a handful of the country's biggest corporate players are lining up to get in first.()
Even as the stock exchange backers passed their first hurdle—a securities law slid through Parliament days after the kickoff—some people wonder how a stock market would operate in this corner of Southeast Asia where luxury villas and country plantations of corrupt government officials dot impoverished cities and former jungle landscapes.
Even the World Bank lost its temper with Cambodia last year, temporarily suspending several of its projects and demanding repayment of money wasted on bribes. It has since resumed work. Another reminder of the corruption problem arrived in late September, when Transparency International's yearly rankings of the most corrupt countries listed Cambodia No. 162 out of 180 countries.』 - 11/01 05:15, 2007引述 :『China's Internet censors have been busy in recent days. Google's (GOOG) Chinese search engine was shut down (BusinessWeek.com, 10/22/07) for parts of Thursday and Friday, a spokesman for the company says. There were reports of similar actions against the search services for Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT). And one Chinese blogger reported that YouTube, the video service that Google recently bought, had been blocked last week. "Is that true another top website is going to leave us?" wrote Shi Zhao, a 34-year-old chemical engineer, on his blog.()
There are no official statements explaining the crackdown. But it seems likely that China's censors have been particularly sensitive because of the gathering of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing (BusinessWeek.com, 10/1/07), an event that occurs every five years. In addition, the blocking of American search engines comes shortly after President George W. Bush met with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader. Web surfers who tried to reach Google.cn ended up being forwarded to Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine that dominates the market in that country.』 - 11/01 05:08, 2007引述 :『NEWSWEEK: In 2004 candidates and advocacy groups spent about $673 million on broadcast commercials. That figure is expected to hit $1 billion this cycle. Why the surge?()
David Schwartz: The media landscape is much more crowded than it used to be. As a result you have to run an ad more in order to make an impression. A viewer needs to see an ad about 18 times before it sinks in. Plus, it used to be just national advertising, but the spending has gotten more and more targeted. In the last few elections we've seen a big percentage of the money being poured into swing states, and in the last election some of those ads were around-the-clock.』 - 11/01 04:53, 2007引述 :『Like its namesake, the Great Firewall consists of hundreds of individual fortifications spread out along a vulnerable frontier. At its core is a giant bank of computers and servers. Traffic generated by China's 162 million Internet users is routed through the shield, which checks all requested URLs against a blacklist of tens of thousands of Internet addresses. The list includes pages offering political information deemed dangerous by the government, like BBC News and Voice of America. Access to these sites is blocked (at least in theory), and when users attempt to view one of them, they are punished with an involuntary time-out lasting anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. Search engines are similarly restricted. If you enter the characters for "democracy" or "Tiananmen Square massacre" into Google.cn you will generally get zero results. This is a technological breakthrough for the Chinese government. Until recently, it could not interfere with the inner workings of search engines and instead blocked entire sites, not just individual pages of a site.』()
- 11/01 04:43, 2007引述 :『NEW YORK - Even with the NBA season under way, commissioner David Stern hasn't forgotten the New York Knicks' embarrassing offseason.()
In an interview broadcast Tuesday, Stern questioned the conduct of Knicks management, which lost a sexual-harassment case in early October.
Asked about the state of the Knicks, Stern told ESPN: "It demonstrates that they're not a model of intelligent management. There were many checkpoints along the way where more decisive action would have eliminated this issue."
Madison Square Garden chairman James L. Dolan, who hasn't spoken publicly since a jury ordered his team to pay $11.6 million to former Knicks' executive Anucha Browne Sanders, said in a statement Tuesday that "we have high regard for the commissioner.』 - 11/01 04:41, 2007引述 :『BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's worst fuel crisis in two years spread to the capital and other inland areas by Wednesday, and one man was killed in a brawl at a petrol station queue, upping pressure on the government to intervene.()
Diesel shortages in China's political heart, which escaped previous supply crunches unscathed, highlight tensions between the government and its increasingly independent oil firms about who should pay for the country's generous fuel subsidies.
At stake are profits for oil majors Sinopec and PetroChina from selling motor fuel in the world's second-largest consumer, where pump prices have not been raised in 17 months even as crude costs hit a series of record highs.』 - 11/01 04:39, 2007引述 :『YANGON (AFP) - About 100 Buddhist monks marched Wednesday in central Myanmar for the first time since the junta's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last month, witnesses said.()
The peaceful demonstration came as officials said UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari would arrive in Myanmar at the weekend for his second round of talks with the ruling generals amid ongoing international concern over September's violence.
The monks marched for about 30 minutes in the town of Pakokku, the scene of one of the most serious confrontations with the military as mass street rallies escalated towards their bloody conclusion, which left 13 people dead.』 - 10/31 11:18, 2007引述 :『被稱為「耶拿六黑」的耶拿小鎮六名黑人高中生，去年十二月因在學校的「白人樹」下，圍毆一名不准他們到該樹下的白人學生，而被檢察官以意圖謀殺的重罪入獄，而成為轟動全美的「耶拿六黑」事件。』()
- 10/31 01:25, 2007引述 :『隨著「狼王」東進波士頓、超音速出清Ray Allen、Rashard Lewis兩大主將，西北組的整體實力在本季提前崩落，5支球隊中有3隊都是陪榜的命運，剩下的2隊有機會一拼季後賽資格，但是能否走到西區的顛峰，答案依舊很悲觀。』()
- 10/31 01:21, 2007引述 :『相較於西北組的孱弱，西南組的各隊可就不可小覷了，德州三雄小牛、馬刺、火箭都不好惹，連灰熊與黃蜂都有本是在季後賽的道路上扮演程咬金，西南組是西區整體實力最堅強的一個分組，競爭一定也會異常激烈。』()
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