Punjab varsity demands Rs.12 lakh for reply under RTI
IANS via Yahoo! India News
Chandigarh, Nov 1 (IANS) The Panjab University (PU) here has demanded over Rs.12 lakh (Rs.1.2 million) from a law student for giving information under the Right To Information (RTI) Act. The varsity says the reply would run into 600,000 pag...
Samsung Pixon12 vs. Sony Ericsson Satio
CNET Asia
The biggest difference here is that the Pixon12 uses arrow tabs to navigate the various menu pages, while the Satio employs scroll bars. In our tests, we found the Pixon12 slightly more responsive when switching camera settings. Activating ...
Schools ministers fail to learn lessons
The Guardian
One would have thought that this testifies to its depth and thoroughness, especially as when pressed this week by the select committee to explain, Ed Balls wrongly claimed that the report had ignored the Williams maths inquiry (mentioned on...
Klosterman analyzes Cobain, Unabomber, ABBA
Miami Herald
"Eating the Dinosaur" (Scribner, 256 pages, $25), by Chuck Klosterman: Chuck Klosterman has a theory. A lot of them, actually. He has a theory about why grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain was like the late cult leader David Koresh, why the read-o...
Authors urge ‘drastic action'
The Montana Standard
"The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong With the World's Leading Media Companies" (Portfolio, 272 pages, $26.95), by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald and Ava Seave.
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Livingston Enterprise
Bring in the pasted-up pages and we'll do the camera work to produce the negatives. Should you need photos enlarged or reduced on our scanners, we can do that, too. Next, our stripping department will process your negatives and burn the pla...
Grudgingly, Young People Finally Flock to Twitter
NewsFactor Network
Young people's slowness to warm to Twitter comes in part from a fondness for the ease and directness of text messaging and other social services that most of their friends already use. Many also are under the false impression that their Twi...
House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages
KETK 56 Tyler
WASHINGTON — It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story. The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and...
'FVZA' from Radical Comics combats vampires and zombies
LehighValleyLive.com
Some of my favorite comic books the past two years have come from Radical Comics and “FVZA” joins that list of truly entertaining comics. It’s also one of the best- priced comics. Most comics are now $2.99 or $3.99 for 22 pages of story. “F...
Harry Potter’ & the green machine
Boston Globe
Viewers get to see Harry’s glasses; his Nimbus 2000 broomstick; the Sorcerer’s Stone; framed pages of The Daily Prophet (is there an online edi tion?); a mock-up of the Hogwarts Express locomotive; a bottle of pumpkin juice (very seasonal);...
Library cuts are like reading a book missing half its pages
The Morning Call
Hours, staff, databases are being slashed as local facilities face reality of 20% less money In glass-is-half-full news: Local libraries will still have books when you go there.
Documents Detail Conditions At Secret CIA Jails
Free Internet Press
F.B.I. agents who arrived at a secret C.I.A. jail overseas in September 2002 found prisoners “manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around the clock,” and a C.I.A. official wrote a list of questions for interrogators includ...
From Down Under, the Next J.K. Rowling?
Wall Street Journal
After just 30 pages of "Beautiful Malice," she was gripped by what she describes as a "brilliantly plotted page-turner," noting that you wouldn't know it was a first novel. Ms. James, who until recently was contemplating retraining or study...
