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Mobile 'net neutrality' faces new day of reckoning at FCC
2014-06-15 17:36:38| Wireless - Topix.net
A surge in mobile Internet usage has U.S. regulators considering whether to apply the same rules to fixed and wireless Internet traffic, and large technology firms are siding with consumer advocates to call for such a change.
03.13: The Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore
2014-02-19 01:35:14| Powells Books Events Calendar
Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar is the largest open market in South Asia — where labyrinthine streets teem with shoppers, rickshaws, and cacophonous music. But Anarkali's exuberant hubbub cannot conceal the fact that Pakistan is a country at the edge of a precipice. Haroon Ullah's The Bargain from the Bazaar (PublicAffairs) is a window onto middle-class lives caught in the maelstrom of a nation falling to pieces — from a violently changing world on the outside and a growing terror from within.
Colorado River Drought Forces Painful Reckoning for States
2014-01-06 03:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The sinuous Colorado River and its slew of man-made reservoirs from the Rockies to southern Arizona are being sapped by 14 years of drought nearly unrivaled in 1,250 years. The once broad and blue river has in many places dwindled to a murky brown trickle. Reservoirs have shrunk to less than half their capacities, the canyon walls around them ringed with white mineral deposits where water once lapped. Seeking to stretch their allotments of the river, regional water agencies are recycling sewage...
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Canadian judge demands a reckoning of Nortel cash fight costs
2013-11-20 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Canadian, U.S. judges to preside jointly over the trial, which will determine who gets the money from sale of Nortel
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Reckoning comes to western US coal country
2013-10-29 13:38:20| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: It's Friday night in the "energy capital of the nation,' a sprawled-out strip mall in Campbell County, Wyoming, called Gillette. In a bar on Highway 59, the liquor bottles are backlit in neon green, and a bartender covered in glitter slings Budweiser Selects to small groups of big men. Various iterations of dudes beating the daylights out of each other occupy the television screens. The man feeding the jukebox chooses rock, never country. In Gillette, coal is king, and the cattle boom is long over....
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