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Last year, the regulatory agencies charged with overseeing the wireless communications market did something unusual: they actually regulated. After spending the Bush years eagerly facilitating the consolidation of the wireless market, in 2011 the FCC and the Justice Department blocked AT&T from merging with T-Mobile over fears that the deal would be anti-competitive and result in job losses. At the time, conservatives in the media decried this move as gross overregulation of a burgeoning market that would dampen investment and stifle technological development.

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By Tony Palumbi Every so often I get a twitching in the long finger of my right hand. It’s happened enough that I know the reason and the cure: Bayonetta , released in 2010 by the wild-and-wacky Platinum Games. Fast-paced Japanese action games have always been a personal favorite dating back to Devil May Cry on the PlayStation 2, and Platinum , helmed by DMC creator Hideki Kamiya, has built a reputation for action titles with personality

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John H. Richardson writes Keystone and the Great Destroyer : In Canada, I learned that my entire approach to life is wrong.

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I thought last night’s episode of The Newsroom was an improvement in its portrayal of the actual process of reporting and the kind of mistakes writers can make in both sourcing and tone when they’re in the heat of a broadcast, if not in Ladies Knowing How to Do Things, or Having a Modern Understanding of The Internet. But there was one thing I thought was disconcerting about the episode: the divide between the way the show talked about Will McAvoy’s father’s drinking and abusive behavior, and the way The Newsroom has consistently portrayed Charlie Skinner. I’ve been bothered for a while by the way The Newsroom treats Charlie.

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Over 500 days have passed since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, but efforts to stabilize the Daiichi power plant continue to waiver as workers struggle to overcome a number of issues at the site, a Japanese news source reported Tuesday. Such daily struggles include dealing with leaking contaminated cooling water, determining the state of the pressure vessels and removing melted nuclear fuel from the reactor cores. read more

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Radio host Bill Nojay and station executive Bob Savage, of WYSL 1040 AM in New York, attempted Monday to deflect attention from racist on-air attacks the pair made last week toward Democratic Congressional candidate and third-generation Japanese-American Nate Shinagawa. Nojay and Savage both disavowed any wrongdoing and accused the ” political left ” of manufacturing outrage after a segment on Friday’s  The Bill Nojay Show  featured the two making fun of Shinagawa’s name, claiming he comes from the “People’s Republic,” and playing over a minute of a popular Japanese song from the 1960′s commonly known as ” Sukiyaki .” From the July 6 edition of The Bill Nojay Show: Savage’s peers weren’t as dismissive of the segment’s potential to offend listeners. As Hornell, NY Mayor Shawn Hogan told the  Canisteo Valley News , “I think it was a definite slap at Nate Shinagawa’s Asian heritage.” Furthermore, one of The Nojay Show’s affiliate’s, AM 1480 WLEA, did not air that portion of the show on Friday due to its controversial nature. 

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Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant accident last year was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” between the Japanese government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said in a report released today. The panel found that the Fukushima nuclear disaster was the result of “ man-made ” failures before and after the March 11, 2011, earthquake

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By Amitabh Pal, July 3, 2012 Even after the Fukushima disaster, it has revived nuclear power. read more

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RT @ LOLGOP : After a century of trying, President signed the first law that achieves near universal health insurance http://t.co/8DmqoFYE

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RT @ LOLGOP : For the first time, health insurers are required to spend 80 to 85 percent of customers’ premiums on actual care .

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