"In Handan, Tian Lanxiu said she and several women protested the pollution from Hangang."

"The company refused to move the villagers. Instead, it pays each family an annual 'pollution fee'.. "

"Residents of Mengwy Village, near Hangang, say they avoid eating outdoors, lest black fallout flake their rice."

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"the CO2 emissions produced by each Wii games console for example - just a single household electrical device - using its Wiiconnect24 stand-by facility, assuming a modest 14 hours playing per week, is over the course of a year greater than, or equal to, the annual carbon dioxide emissions per person in countries such as Burundi or Chad.

In its report, Nef offers some alternatives to holiday consumerism while still having a meaningful holiday. These include giving the gift of time rather than material items, playing secret Santa so only one gift is given, and reading a book, playing games, or going sledding instead of high-tech gifts. Other possibilities include donating to charity or various organizations as gifts.

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What is your data center like?

We have a brand new station that we just completed [in 2005] and we have a full-on data center with raised floors and everything you would have anywhere else in the world. We have about 30 servers.

We also have what we call the RF [radio frequency] building, which is about a kilometer away from the main station, and we have a backup emergency data center out there where we keep extra file servers and a SAN. That's where the satellite dishes are.

Our biggest challenge is bandwidth. We only have it only 12 hours a day at anywhere from T-1 (1.54 Mbit/sec) to 3 Mbit/sec speeds.

We also have a transponder that we can use to send 60 Mbit/sec unidirectional from the pole to the real world. We use that to upload scientific data. Our record was 94Gbytes out in one day.

We have three different satellites we use to provide our Internet. All of those are pretty ancient. We have a weather satellite, an old maritime communications satellite and an old NASA satellite, the first one that was launched back in 1981. The others were launched in 1976 or 1977.

Basically we're scavenging whatever we can find and we can only see each satellite for 3 to 4 hours a day.

In the past year we put up a really cool system where we're using the Iridium satellite network. We have 12 modems mulitiplexed together and have a total of 28.8K connectivity 24 x 7. Nobody thought it would work. Nobody ever thought we would have 24 x 7 connectivity at the South Pole. Now that's our last resort. When our broadband satellites are down we switch to the Iridium system automatically.

The Federal Government has moved to wind up the Howard Government's so-called Pacific Solution by granting refugee status to seven Burmese men being held on Nauru.

Immigration Minister Chris Evans says the Labor Government is hoping to quickly resolve the claims of about 80 Sri Lankans who are also being held on Nauru.

Mr Evans says the men will be settled in Brisbane. "I'm hopeful that those Burmese will be returned in the next week or two in time for Christmas," he said.

Meanwhile, Israeli Member of the Knesset, Yitzhak Cohen, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3480595,00.html states the recent US report, which assesses Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, is "reminiscent of Auschwitz"

The manner in which the Americans relate to the intelligence report on Iran is similar to the way in which they viewed those reports they received during the Holocaust on railways transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz," Minister Yitzhak Cohen of Shas said during a security cabinet meeting Sunday morning on the Iranian nuclear issue.

"In the middle of the previous century the Americans received intelligence reports from Auschwitz on the packed trains going to the extermination camps. They claimed then that the railways were industrial. Their attitude today to the information coming out of Iran on the Iranians' intention to produce a nuclear bomb reminds one of their attitude during the holocaust."

among the lush manicured lawns of the Nusa Dua resort on the island of Bali, delegates at a key United Nations climate change conference are being treated to a different vision of a greener Indonesia.

Eco-friendly bicycles glide along the thoroughfares linking the luxury resorts, while representatives from nearly 190 nations are encouraged to think before they throw away their lunch wrappers and superfluous schedules.

about 10,000 people are gathering [at the resort] to try to negotiate a plan for tackling climate change when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol - a treaty to battle global warming - expires in 2012.

Special bins dotted around the conference centre divide plastic and paper, where some delegates can be seen hovering before deciding where to deposit their waste. But despite the best of intentions, there are pitfalls to pedal-power: 13 bikes "went missing" on the first day.

Indonesians outside the conference walls have other ideas for disposing of rubbish. "We put everything into the hole which I share with my neighbours, and every day we burn it," said Kadek Murtini, a 27-year-old street vendor in Bali's main city of Denpasar.

"I've never heard about (recycling). It must be high technology with big machines," shop owner Nyoman Sudarna said.

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For most companies, a failed launch of a new product is very costly. For Google, in general, it's not. Failure is cheap.

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To mark World Aids Day, Natasha Freedman from the world-renowned Complicite company travelled to Malawi - a country that loses ten people to Aids every hour - to go behind the scenes