Archive - Jul 29, 2010

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BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) - China has jailed three ethnic Uighur webmasters for three to 10 years, an activist group said on Friday, a week after a ...

Source: Reuters DHAKA, July 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers took to the streets, burning cars and blocking traffic in Dhaka on Friday to protest against a government-announced wage hike that ...

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - Government
prosecutors in the trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim should turn over their evidence to the defense before hearings resume in order to comply with fair trial ...

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SAIDON KALACHEH, Afghanistan, July 30 (Reuters) - Defeating insurgents in Afghanistan's volatile Arghandab Valley would take time, but there were now enough U.S. and Afghan troops to ...

Source: Reuters VORONEZH, Russia, July 30 (Reuters) - Five people died and hundreds lost their homes as a wave of forest fires spread through central Russia on Friday, fuelled by strong winds and record temperatures ...

Reuters - Three months after the catastrophic oil rig explosion that sent millions of gallons of crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. House of Representatives was poised on Friday to debate legislation clamping down on the industry's offshore drilling practices.

AP - A brush fire swept over more than 7 square miles, prompted evacuations and burned structures in rural Los Angeles County Thursday as water-dropping helicopters and crews scrambled to get ahead of the blaze.

AP - Rescue and government officials say flooding has killed at least 267 people in Pakistan over the past three days.

AP - A federal prosecutor said Thursday a former B-2 bomber engineer helped China design a stealth cruise missile to raise money to pay the $15,000-a-month mortgage on the mansion-like home he built on Maui's north shore.

AP - The already fragile economic recovery may be getting weaker.

by Harry Enten

Fox News / Opinion Dynamics
7/27-28/10; 900 registered voters, 3% margin of error
336 Democrats, 5% margin of error
366 Republicans, 5% margin of error
140 independents, 8% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
(Fox News: Immigration, Obama and Congress)

National

Obama Job Approval
43% Approve, 50% Disapprove (chart)
Dems: 80 / 15 (chart)
Reps: 14 / 80 (chart)
Inds: 36 / 56 (chart)
Economy: 38 / 59 (chart)
Health Care: 41 / 55 (chart)
Job Creation: 36 / 57
Afghanistan: 42 / 47
Immigration: 35 / 54
Race relations: 50 / 34

Congress Job Approval
21% Approve, 71% Disapprove (chart)

2010 Congress: Generic Ballot
47% Republican, 36% Democrat (chart)

If Republican win Congress, things will change for the
37% Better, 21% Worse, 38% No change

If it were possible to locate most illegal immigrants currently in the United States, would you favor deporting as many as possible or would you favor setting up a system for them to become legal residents?
45% Deport, 49% Set up system

Favor or Oppose Arizona's new immigration law
50% Favor, 31% Oppose

Arizona officials say they passed the new immigration law because the federal government was failing to enforce existing law against illegal entry into the United States. Do you think the federal government is -- or is not -- enforcing existing laws against illegal entry into the country?
21% Yes, 72% No

Party ID
37% Democrat, 41% Republican, 16% independent (chart)

Clive Thompson waxes philosophical on how text messaging is threatening -- and preserving -- the telephone conversation.

Wired magazine's Found page represents our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Help create our next Found page: Show us what taco trucks will look like in 10, 20 or 100 years?

What will in-flight entertainment be like in the year 2023? There isn't any.

Penguin publishes the first paperback books of substance, bringing the likes of Ernest Hemingway, André Maurois and Agatha Christie to the masses. The business model of the book-publishing industry is about to change.