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Human Rights Watch says widespread corruption can be found at every level

Barack Obama’s administration will support the creation of a UN inquiry into alleged Burma war crimes.

President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to support the creation of a UN inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed by Myanmar’s government, the Washington Post reported.

Apparat: in Russian, the machinery of state authority — and, in Gary Shteyngart’s super new satire, a “pebble-shaped” device hanging around everyone’s neck and representing in one succinct image all that’s wrong with the world of Shteyngart’s novel.

Humans merging with machines? Radical life extension? On the eve of the Singularity Summit, let’s look past some of these scarier notions to understand what lessons this movement can teach us.

Part Three: What We’ll Never Know. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? In the third of this year’s Reith Lectures, recorded at the Royal Society during its 350th anniversary year, its President Lord Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century. There are things that will always lie beyond our sphere of comprehension and we should accept …

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine! A new novel takes on iPhones, streams, and the reversal of the American dream. Gary Shteyngart – United States – iPhone – Lenny Abramov – Super Sad True Love Story

Part Three: What We’ll Never Know. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? In the third of this year’s Reith Lectures, recorded at the Royal Society during its 350th anniversary year,its President Lord Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century. there are things that will always lie beyond our sphere of comprehension and we should accept …

In Gary Shteyngarts dystopian future, America is in a perpetual state of emergency, but people still cant help falling in love.

It was close. So close, in fact, that Gary Shteyngart thought he might not finish his new novel before real world events morphed it from the futuristic piece he’d intended into actual history.

THERE IS now no alleged abuse of human rights which is not reviewable by an independent court, Northern Ireland High Court judge the Hon Mr Justice Séamus Treacy said last night.

His third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in a futuristic America — where books don’t exist and where the economy has collapsed. Shteyngart explains why he decided to write a love story in this dystopic vision of the future — and why he thinks technology is changing the way we think.

Creating an alternative world inhabited by characters we can care about isn’t easy. Yet Shteyngart, without resorting to pyrotechnics, insinuates his readers into an original, engaging and frightening world.

There’s an inherent problem in satirizing how vapid American culture has become.

A review of Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story,” a wicked sendup of just about everything in contemporary culture, from social media to celebrity, status and fashion, delivered in a multivoiced collage of diary entries, e-mail ramblings and cellphone chats. Shteyngart discusses his book at 8 p.m. Monday at Seattle’s Sunset Tavern in Ballard.

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Gary Shteyngart’s dystopian novel narrates two doomed romances: one between a man and a woman, and one between a writer and his country — or what he fears his country may become. By turns fierce, funny and frightening, Super Sad True Love Story deserves a place on the shelf beside 1984 and Brave New World.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) A Bozeman city employee who was disciplined for her role in a hiring policy that asked job candidates to share login codes to personal Internet sites like Facebook is stepping down from her position for a lower post.

Today Ive made a major decision: I am never going to die.

Splice director Vincenzo Natali has rustled up a brilliant GM horror tale. It makes him the ideal choice to finally bring William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel to the screen Every year there are a couple of science-fiction movies that really stand out as original pieces of thinking, while managing to make some sort of headway with audiences. Last year, we had Moon and District 9, and 2010 looks like …