China <-> Canada: Travel, investing, business, trade, politics, etc.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Google embroiled in new Chinese row
Published by Shanghai-ed.
BBC NEWS | Business | Chevron claims energy debate
Published Monday, February 20, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
People's Daily Online -- Homegrown face recognition system to be used for public identification in China
Published by Shanghai-ed.
New cookie technology to shield web users from cyber crooks - Science News - Webindia123.com
Published by Shanghai-ed.
State Hornet Online - Letter to the Editor: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran: Why are we making this power-mad extremist look so good?
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1024-bit encryption is 'compromised' - vnunet.com
Published Thursday, February 16, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
Discovery Channel :: News :: New Tomb Found Near King Tut
Published Tuesday, February 14, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
OpenNet Initiative Blog » Blog Archive » Google.cn Filtering: How It Works
Published by Shanghai-ed.
Rosneft Profits Grow 6 Times with Help of Yukos Oil - COMPANY NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM
Published by Shanghai-ed.
Souped-up blog takes South Korea by storm - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
Published Sunday, February 12, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
Wired News: Sharper Image, Better Performance: "By Gretchen Cuda | Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Feb, 08, 2006
With over 10 inches of rain in January alone, one would be hard-pressed to find a single person sporting sun glasses at Nike headquarters in Hillsboro, Oregon. But that hasn’t kept Nike designers from thinking about sunny-weather sports.
The company has teamed up with contact lens maker Bausch and Lomb to create performance-enhancing contact lenses called MaxSight. They're a tinted version of daily disposal lenses for athletes that reduce glare and improve visual acuity.
They block nearly all the sun's damaging UVA and UVB rays just like sunglasses, but their optics can also give athletic performance a boost.
'I think they're spectacular,' says optometrist David McBride, who sells Maxsight at his clinic in Portland. He wears the grey-green version to improve his golf game, and estimates he has fit a dozen of his patients with MaxSight, most of whom have never worn contact lenses before. 'I expect they will become very popular come spring.'
The lenses come in amber for sports like baseball and tennis where the wearer must separate fast moving objects from the background, and grey-green for sports like golf, where the background environment is what’s visually important. Both colors filter out a significant amount of overall light"
02:00 AM Feb, 08, 2006
With over 10 inches of rain in January alone, one would be hard-pressed to find a single person sporting sun glasses at Nike headquarters in Hillsboro, Oregon. But that hasn’t kept Nike designers from thinking about sunny-weather sports.
The company has teamed up with contact lens maker Bausch and Lomb to create performance-enhancing contact lenses called MaxSight. They're a tinted version of daily disposal lenses for athletes that reduce glare and improve visual acuity.
They block nearly all the sun's damaging UVA and UVB rays just like sunglasses, but their optics can also give athletic performance a boost.
'I think they're spectacular,' says optometrist David McBride, who sells Maxsight at his clinic in Portland. He wears the grey-green version to improve his golf game, and estimates he has fit a dozen of his patients with MaxSight, most of whom have never worn contact lenses before. 'I expect they will become very popular come spring.'
The lenses come in amber for sports like baseball and tennis where the wearer must separate fast moving objects from the background, and grey-green for sports like golf, where the background environment is what’s visually important. Both colors filter out a significant amount of overall light"
CBC News: Buffett warns of turmoil with U.S. trade deficit
Published Friday, February 10, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
Chocolate That Flashes Its Passport - New York Times
Published Thursday, February 09, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
[print version] White House discloses details on surveillance | CNET News.com
Published by Shanghai-ed.
CTV.ca - Apple expands iPod line, slashes some prices- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Published Wednesday, February 08, 2006 by Shanghai-ed.
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