Roundups

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• India: Corruption Of Rural Teachers

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Lekhni at The Imagined Universe talks about an ingenious method of corruption by some teachers from rural areas of India - they bribe to get themselves suspended from their jobs so that “they would keep receiving 50 per cent of the monthly salary and pursue other lucrative jobs.”
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• Russia: Quarantine in Yekaterinburg

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Russian Blog reports that Yekaterinburg authorities have announced a flu-related quarantine from Nov. 13 to Nov. 20.
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• Ukraine: Updates on the Flu Epidemic

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Last weeks posts on the flu epidemic: Tetyana Vysotska of Whats up, Ukraine? falls ill (doctor tells her its “impossible to have a test on whether it may be a swine flu”) and recovers ; Foreign Notes writes that “there is no reason to expect the medical profession in [Ukraine] to be any less corrupt or ...
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• CEE: The Berlin Wall

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: How To Marry a Bulgarian hosts a series of readers personal reflections : Biliana Velkova , Alexandra Grashkina-Hristova , Maria Vassileva ; Hungarian Spectrum writes that “for Hungary and the Hungarians the whole thing started much earlier”; ...
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• Russia: 1999 Chechen Diary, Part 4

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  The final part ( part 4 ) of Polina Zherebtsova’s 1999 Chechen Diary - at Sundry Translations and Other Tangentialia . (More links: intro , part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , Russian-language original .)
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• CEE: Recycling & Bicycles, Energy Consumption, and More

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  At Th!nk About It , a climate change blogging competition, Adela reports on the construction of a highway in Romania , which will go through a national park, endangering “the only virgin forest on our good old continent”, and also writes about the Recicleta project in Bucharest , and one Romanian mans roof ...
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• CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

  
  CRAFT — Authority: 727
  This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Sewing Room TV Cover by modernjax, knit red cape by gascoynebowman, fat bear, needle felted by vriad_lee, and feltronics by ifyoulikebubbles. Read this article | Comment on this article
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• Finland: The Language Issue

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Nordic Voices writes about Finlands “language issue.”
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• U.S., Europe: Immigrant Writing; Diaspora Mentality

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Maud Newton writes about a newly-published anthology of immigrant writing, “ Becoming Americans .” Sublime Oblivion examines the views of “Russian political analyst & nationalist Konstantin Krylov” on “international diasporas” and “the diaspora mentality.”
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• Box Office Results 11/15/2009

  
  Pajiba — Authority: 693
  Ka-Boom! Ka-Ching! The Weekend Box-Office Round-Up / William Goss
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• Russia: Luzhkov vs NYTimes; “Destruction of Old Moscow”

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  IZO posts a translation of an open letter to president Medvedev “about the destruction of old Moscow under Mayor Luzhkov,” written by urbanism scholar Yuri Bocharov. Russia! reports on the defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, filed and won by the Moscow mayor.
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• U.S.: Redesign Of Vladimir Nabokovs Book Covers

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  At Design Observer , John Gall writes about the redesign of Vladimir Nabokovs book covers: “All twenty-one of them.” (Link via Maud Newton .)
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• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W220

  
  Digital Camera Reviews — Authority: 124
  Last update 15 November’09 – Review and Sample Photos @ DigicamReview Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W220 is a 12 megapixel and it features include 4x optical zoom, 2.7 inch LCD, Intelligent Scene Recognition, Dynamic Range Optimizer, Optical SteadyShot image stabilization, Smile Shutter technology and HD output. ...
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• Sunday News Round-Up – 11/15

  
  Courtney-Jo — Authority: 118
  Lots of good stuff at Our Bodies Our Blog as usual, including a new post from OBOS intern Meg Young on Reebok’s ridiculous new sneaker ad . The FDA is looking into caffeinated alcoholic beverages and considering whether they are safe and/or legal (via NPR ). On Stupak, NPR has a good explanation of the red ...
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• Thailand: Google logos

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Thai 101 uploads custom logos of Google Thailand
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• Thailand: “Demon” statues at airport bring bad luck

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Airport officials in Bangkok will remove 12 “demon statues because they believe the statues cause bad luck to shopkeepers.
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• Laos: Finswimming part of ASEAN games

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  In next months Southeast Asian Games, there will be no sporting events for basketball, gymnastics and track cycling. But finswimming is included in the competition.
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• Thailand: House of Museums

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  My Unseen Thailand is impressed with a Bangkok museum called House of Museums . The said museum displays everyday items of the 1950s and 1960s.
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• Geocodes for Bangkok sub-districts

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  New geocodes were updated for Bangkoks new sub-districts.
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• Bhutan: Independence Day

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  “Is Bhutan a free country or an Indian protectorate as claimed by an edition of the oxford dictionary?” - asks Freedom in Bhutan while discussing why Bhutan does not celebrate its Independence Day.
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