Gawker's Adrian Chen: "Through a combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system, Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics--and seemingly as safe. It's Amazon-- if Amazon sold mind-altering chemicals."... Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road. More » So soon? After all that flexing for the cameras it's looking like Ciara and Amar'e Stoudemire may have met a rocky road. Everyone is wondering the status of the pair after Amar'e showed up at a Whitney Art Party event Afghan Ensemble featuring Zohreh Jooya and Ustad Hossein Arman Afghan Music (ARC Music, 2011) The problem with truly nutty people is they tend to be the loudest, put themselves in... share: digg facebook twitter Coming as global auto and electronics makers struggle with parts shortages caused by Japan's March 11 tsunami, the disaster emphasized the pitfalls for companies whose global sales depend on one or two factories. "If you are trying to do as much as you can in one place to reduce the risks of an overextended supply chain, then you are very dependent upon the safety of those one or two factories," said David Dayton, owner of Silk Road International Inc., which manages purchasing and manufacturing in China for foreign customers. Electronics makers such as Foxconn have flocked to China, drawn by a low-cost workforce and good infrastructure, making it the global manufacturing center for computers and consumer electronics. Foxconn, a unit of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., is a leader in a contract manufacturing industry that helps global electronics brands hold down costs. The potential pitfalls of such massive concentration were driven home when Japan's tsunami forced thousands of factories to shut down, abruptly cutting off supplies of key auto and electronics components. Customers get lower prices by placing giving more business with one company and want to watch suppliers carefully following a ... For 2011′s City Parks Foundation's SummerStage opening night, 400 New York City sixth-graders and their teachers will perform with the internationally acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma and friends... Regardless of this one death the slaughter in Pakistan by bomb, bullet, cannon and drone will carry on As news of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's death reverberates in Pakistan, embassies here are shutting down, hotels are ramping up security, restaurants are reporting cancelled reservations and public gatherings like plays, concerts and lectures, are being postponed. The feeling in Lahore is familiar: it is like the dread that lingers over the city in the days after it has suffered a massive terrorist attack. This time, though, the attack has not yet happened, and the dread spans the entire country. Pakistanis know they may pay a blood price for Bin Laden's killing. A purported mirror has been broken. Bad luck is to be expected. Yet as I speak to friends and visit the market there is resignation , as well. After a decade of slaughter many here feel that terrorists are already striking Pakistan as hard as they can, and moreover that al-Qaida is no longer as powerful as other militant groups. The most common sentiment I hear is that nothing much will change. That depends, of course, on how the US responds. Barack Obama noted in ... A thousand years after the Silk Road began disappearing into the wind-blown steppe, the people of Kazakhstan are awaiting a modern, paved, high-speed version carrying 21st-century jewels such as jobs, indoor plumbing and connections to the global economy. Meeting at Smithsonian discusses the 1998 recovery of relics from an ancient Arab ship carrying Chinese goods Among his contemporaries he's a pioneer who, by using real mirrors and looking at mirror neurons, is changing the way we think about thinking Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran is not a name that rolls off the tongue, even in its more common abbreviated form of VS Ramachandran. Perhaps this is the reason its owner is not as well known by the general public as his fellow neurologist and friend Oliver Sacks. But within the sciences he is seen as one of the great pioneers of our time. In an often-quoted description, Richard Dawkins once wrote: "Ramachandran is a latterday Marco Polo, journeying the Silk Road of science to strange and exotic Cathays of the mind." Such is his reputation for pushing back the boundaries of neuroscience that _Newsweek_ magazine identified him among the "100 most prominent people to watch" in the 21st century. The former Cambridge PhD student has also been feted in Britain, giving the Reith lectures in 2003, gaining fellowships of All Souls College and the Royal Institution, as well as a two-part Channel 4 series. Furthermore, his book _Phantoms in the Brain_ was highly acclaimed. But for all that recognition, he's still not easily ... Pa. archaeology museum removes mummies, artifacts from 'Silk Road' exhibit after China objects Archaeologists and Afghan officials hail exhibit as a new age for Afghan culture and a way to unite Afghanistan's ethnic groups In our January-February edition of Traveler 20-- a round-up of travel-worthy happenings taking place around the globe-- we profiled the upcoming mummy exhibit "The Secrets of the Silk Road," set to run from February 5th through June 5th at the... The northern Syrian city of Aleppo is acquiring a renewed appreciation of its monumental past These statues were a reminder of a more beguiling version of Afghanistan than Mullah Omar pressed upon his people They stood 55 metres and 38 metres high, the colossal Buddhas of Bamiyan, and blowing up the bigger statue took 25 explosions and all the dynamite local commanders had. Afghanistan's Taliban demolished these two "shrines of the infidels" 10 years ago this month on the grounds that they were idolatrous. But the world's largest Buddhas, carved into the sandstone cliffs of Bamiyan in the sixth century AD, were also a reminder of a different and more beguiling version of Afghanistan than Mullah Mohammed Omar pressed upon his people. Bamiyan was a staging post on the Silk Road that carried goods and ideas all the way from China to Rome, and Buddhism came to Afghanistan as an export from the Indian subcontinent. Religious monuments have been regular victims of intolerance throughout history – but there was something peculiarly bloody minded about the destruction of these statues. It was done amid Afghanistan's worst drought in 30 years, while three million people faced starvation. Taliban commanders gave their orders as a show of defiance against the imposition of more UN ... Sitar virtuoso Shujaat Husain Khan and Kayhan Kalhor, master of the kamancheh (the traditional Persian fiddle, collectively known as Ghazal, will bring their unique blending of Indian and Iranian classical... Aruna Sharkey, 6, looked at a female mummy at the "Secrets of the Silk Road" exhibit at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. LAS VEGAS (TheStreet) -- CityCenter has had a few months to settle on the Las Vegas strip. Visitors and residents have had time to warm up to its glass curves, whether they're shopping or playing the slots in its Aria Resort & Casino. Located on 67 acres between the Bellagio and Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, the Cesar Pelli and Daniel Libeskind-designed development is home to three distinctly different hotels. The all-suite Vdara on Harmon Circle was the CityCenter's first hotel. A grand lobby of abstract chandeliers and asymmetrical floors leads to stylish but muted rooms with fully equipped kitchens and spa-style bathrooms with city views. The hotel is home to a rooftop pool with daily DJ entertainment and the Silk Road Restaurant, created by chef Martin Heierling who created Sensi at the Bellagio. ...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Inside a Bitcoinpowered online illicit drug mall The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable [Exclusive] Breakups Has Amar’e Already Kicked CiCi Curbside Delightful Peek Into Afghan Music Explosion at China iPad factory shows supply risks Silk Road Ensemble with YoYo Ma and friends to Perform 400 Connect Students in New York on June 7 2011 Osama bin Laden's death Pakistan will pay the blood price | Mohsin Hamid A new beckons from Central Asia igniting dreams Kazakhstan Treasure Hunting Complicates Exhibit of Important Shipwreck Find VS Ramachandran Marco Polo neuroscience Profile Philly Museum Removes Mummies After Objects Return 'Silk Road' reopens Chinese mummies yanked amid dispute Kabul Exhibition Displays Newly Excavated Ancient Arti
