ver wish you could hide all your tabs in Chrome or Firefox with one click? These add-ons are great for when you’re browsing the Internet at work when you’re not supposed to (tsk tsk), or just trying to preserve some of your privacy when family or friends are visiting. You can set a password on the Chrome version for restoring the [...]
TOKYO — From inspectors’ abandoning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as it succumbed to disaster to a delay in disclosing radiation leaks, Japan’s response to the nuclear accident caused by the March tsunami fell tragically short, a government-appointed investigative panel said on Monday. The failures, which the panel said worsened the extent of the [...]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a building used by paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan early on Saturday, killing at least six soldiers and wounding 11 others, police officials said. The attack took place near the town of Bannu, in the Bannu tribal region 25 miles east [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack while traveling on his train, according to an announcement Monday by the country’s state-run media. Word of [...]
Here are some interesting things about the Fiat 500 that don’t really matter: The little biscotti are not selling as well as Fiat North America—a division of Il Chryslerino—had planned. The 500 will probably finish out the year with sales in the low 20,000s, well short of management’s 50,000-unit prediction, apparently made at a blind-drunk [...]
On Thursday, I wrote about a Pew Research Center study showing that the median age at first marriage is about six years higher today than it was in 1960, for both sexes. 在周四，我写了一些关于皮尤研究中心对于两性的研究，这些研究显示现在中年第一次结婚的时间比60年代晚6年。 But Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reminds us that using 1960 as a reference point can [...]
OTTAWA — Canada said on Monday that it would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under that accord, major industrialized nations agreed to meet targets for reducing emissions, but mandates were not imposed on developing countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa. The United States never ratified the treaty. Canada [...]
THE HAGUE — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other international leaders urged countries and private businesses on Thursday to fight increasing efforts to restrict access to the Internet by repressive governments and even some democratic ones。 在海牙-美国国务卿希拉里克林顿和其它国际领导人在周四呼吁各个国家和私人商业一起不断的努力去为那些限制接入互联网的镇压政府和某些民主国家而斗争。 Opening a two-day conference on digital freedom here sponsored by Google and the Dutch government, Mrs. Clinton warned that restrictions [...]
Chinese telecommunications- equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. said it will scale back its business in Iran, where the company provides services to government-controlled telecom operators, following reports that Iranian police were using mobile-network technology to track down and arrest dissidents. Shenzhen-based Huawei will “voluntarily restrict its business development there by no longer seeking new customers [...]
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank moved aggressively to head off a recession and credit crunch in the euro area Thursday, cutting its benchmark interest rate for the second month in a row and taking unprecedented steps to expand emergency funding to cash-starved banks. 法兰克福-周四，欧洲中央银行有侵略性的采取行动去避免在欧元区的经济衰和信贷短缺，连续第二个月减少基准率利，同时做出空前的一步去扩大紧急基金以帮助那些现金紧张的银行。 But stocks fell after Mario Draghi, the E.C.B. president, quashed hopes that the bank might [...]
