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• Aid for Myanmar Mobilizes, Mixed With Criticism
“A powerful cyclone that destroyed a vast swath of coastal Myanmar and left many thousands of people dead prompted the country’s military leaders to allow some foreign aid groups to deliver relief supplies on Tuesday.”
• Photographs From Myanmar
• I.O.C. Rules Will Limit Protests by Athletes
“Athletes who compete in the Beijing Olympics will not be allowed to wave flags, make gestures or alter their external appearance to make a political statement, according to guidelines issued in April by the International Olympic Committee.”
• Global Economic Minute: Immigration’s past and present
• Senator Clinton stays in the race despite lackluster Tuesday, are there Rewards For Dropping Out?
• Iron Man (movie) gets generally favorable reviews
• Poll: Only 2.5 percent of Americans are LGB
“Hunter College released the results of a groundbreaking poll Wednesday that found only 2.9 percent of Americans older than 18 identify as LGB, lower than the 4-5 percent often cited in voter exit polls.”
• The Sustainable City–Ecological Dream or Technocratic Nightmare?
“And while the little boy in me thrills at the science-fiction stylishness of some of the architects’ renderings of these cities of the future (of which the picture above is a sample), another part of me wonders whether the promises now being made about these projects have even a chance of being fulfilled.”
