Need to know: Egypt's opposition movement has called for one million people to hit the streets on Tuesday in another push to force President Hosni Mubarak to step down. The call came as Egypt's security forces regrouped and began reasserting their authority and as demonstrations entered their seventh day. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, people there can only watch in envy as events in Egypt unfold while their own country devolves into a constitutional crisis, spurred by an increasingly authoritarian president supported by the United States, and a decade-long war pushes forward. |
Want to know: The leader of Tunisia's Islamic movement, Rachid Ghannouchi, returned to the country Sunday after 22 years in exile to participate in the forming of a new government. Remember Tunisia? One of Indonesia's most-famous pop stars, Ariel, has been sentenced to prison for making a series of sex tapes with his celebrity girlfriends, which then leaked and spread wildly across the internet to the glee of the young and the horror of the religiously conservative. |
Dull but important: Are the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia the result of rising food prices? If so, there could be a lot more uprisings to come, whether in North Africa or Asia or anywhere else in the world. Prices are increasing everywhere. Myanmar's new sham Parliament has convened for the first time since the sham election last year. Its first act was to institute a new sham Constitution. |
Just because: Astronomers at the Kepler Observatory in California are zeroing in on where might exist in the universe some alien life forms. The astronomers are scheduled to unveil a list of 400 stars that are the "brightest and best" bets so far for harboring planets, and maybe, living organisms. |
Wacky: This is perhaps more sad than wacky. But it is nevertheless hard to believe. In Thailand, tourists are paying to be taken to camps where they can see, and maybe even talk to, exotic-looking Burmese refugees. The displaced people of course see little of that money. Human rights groups are calling the camps "human zoos." |
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