There is a new concern with the Beijing Olympics: the toilet situation. There were over 30 test events held by organizers and the squat toilets that have been provided are a source of complaints.

“We have asked the venues to improve on this, to increase the number to sit-down toilets,” Yao Hui, deputy director of venue management for the Beijing organizers, said Wednesday. “Many people have raised the question of toilets.” …click here to read more

“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. …click here to read more

PORTLAND, Maine - March 18, 2008 - Customers of two East Coast supermarket chains have been told to closely monitor their credit and debit card statements after more than 4 million cards were exposed in a data breach.

The Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain experienced a security breach that led to thefts of customer credit and debit card numbers used at 165 stores in New England and New York and 106 Sweetbay stores in Florida, as well as a smaller number of independent grocers selling Hannaford products. …click here to read more

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CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
CVPR 2008 will be held at the Egan Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, June 23-28, 2008.
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Highlights of preliminary results from exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in Tuesday’s presidential primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont:

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A young mother allegedly gang-raped in her home has hit out at YouTube for allowing hundreds of viewers to watch a video of her ordeal.The three-minute clip, apparently filmed on a mobile phone, was posted on the video-sharing website within hours of the attack on November 6.

It was seen more than 600 times in the three months it remained on the site. …click here to read more