China’s Year of the Rabbit: Not So Great For All Those Abducted Baby Rabbits
2011 is, by the Chinese zodiac cycle, the Year of the Rabbit, which is far worse news for baby bunnies than you might imagine.
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Sargent Shriver, “The Maverick Inlaw,” Dead at 95
The American politician, activist and Kennedy brother-in-law Sargent Shriver died on January 18th in his homestate of Maryland; he was 95.
Paid to Dress Like Pandas, Save the Species
How far would China’s conservationists go to safeguard the country’s giant pandas, a struggling species of a couple thousand? This far: oversized, fuzzily oppressive bear costumes.
English Is Out: Chinese to Rule the World Wide Web
“Great Firewall” or not, Chinese Web surfers have overtaken the intertubes and so, it turns out, has their mother tongue. The stats are in: Chinese is poised to outpace English as the dominant language online.
China’s Robot Waiters: No Tipping Necessary
A restaurant that opened this month in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong uses robots for waiters, boosting efficiency and providing further proof that human beings are superfluous. Machines don’t grumble over tips. And …
Japanese PM: We Will Recover Iwo Jima’s Fallen
Naoto Kan became the second Japanese prime minister to visit the iconic World War II battlefield of Iwo Jima Tuesday. He came to pay his respects to the more than 21,000 Japanese soldiers who lost their lives on the Pacific …
South Korean Trawler Sinks Suddenly; Rescue Mission Slows
A South Korean ship, the In Sung No. 1, sank swiftly and without warning to the bottom of glacial waters off Antarctica on Monday, leaving five crewmembers dead and another seventeen unaccounted for. It’s highly unlikely that …
TSA Gets Touchy: Another Indian Diplomat Peeved About Pat-Down
Indian ambassador to the U.S. Meera Shankar’s all-too-warm welcome to Mississippi’s Jackson-Evers International Airport last week—she was singled out and pat-down by a security agent—has sparked an international debate. …
Baby Seals and Their Mamas Clubbed in New Zealand
In gruesome and just plain disheartening news, twenty-three seals were found clubbed to death at a popular tourist spot on New Zealand’s South Island. Eight of the animals were days-old pups when they were bludgeoned for no …