garrett’s NewsCloud Journal

Last week, a US Court of Appeals upheld a ruling on software piracy. The organization doing the piracy, however, happened to be a branch of the US government, and the decision highlights the significant limits to the application of copyright law to the government charged with enforcing it. Most significantly, perhaps, the court found that because the DMCA is written in a way that targets individual infringers, the government cannot be liable for claims made under the statute.

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The Russian president’s global ambitions—and his drift toward totalitarianism—hinge on the staggering energy reserves of the onetime Siberian gulag of Sakhalin Island.
Royal Dutch Shell knows the drill.

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The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world — and also one of the
most hotly debated by linguists.

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A small village in Kenya is being sexually harassed by marauding monkeys; women and children are the targets as the monkeys are afraid of men.

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BP has applied for, and received a permit to dump more toxic discharges into Lake Michigan, all the while promoting their green image.

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Scientists show that not only are darker colored fruits slowing down cancer, the darker more exotic ones can actually killed cancer cells.

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A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7. struck Peru on Wednesday shaking buildings in the capital and causing electrical power failures in some areas, the U.S.
Geological Survey and eyewitnesses said.

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A reporter looks at how the stories he covered affected him and his spiritual journey.

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ConocoPhillips, one of the largest US oil companies, and Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat produces, have recently announced that they plan to start adding animal
fat to the diesel sold by ConocoPhillips at pumps by the end of 2007. The fat, which would come from pigs, cows, and chickens, would be indistinguishable from regular
diesel, and chemically equivalent to diesel itself.

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A global shift toward renewable energy could jack up food prices by up to 80 percent as crops and farmland are diverted to producing biofuels, an international agricultural
think-tank warned Thursday.

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