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[Mark Warschauer]

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 From China's Province, A Crafty Germ Spreads
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/health/27SARS.html?pagewanted=all&position=
Fairly decent journalism on SARS, documenting, among other things, 
how SARS started in southern China a full six months ago, and 
basically went unreported to the rest of the world for a full 2.5 
months.  The virus is a great metaphor for the state of the world 
today, indicating how in the era of globalization, problems anywhere 
in the globe (not only health problems, but also political problems, 
e.g., corruption, lack of transparency) can quickly effect the whole 
world.  SARS is quite scary, since at this point it may be too far 
out of control, especially in China, too contain.  But, on a positive 
note, someone who works on similar viruses here at UC Irvine tells me 
that this family of viruses is not that difficulty to tackle, and 
both a cure and a vaccine could be developed within a year or so.

The Beilin Abu Mazen document
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Peace/beilinmazen.html
With the appointment of a new Prime Minister of the Palestinian 
Authority, attention is focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 
and renewed up of negotiations.  The new Prime Minister, Mahmoud 
Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), has long been among the group of Palestinians 
who have favored a negotiated solution to the conflict.  In 1995, Abu 
Mazen and Israeli Cabinet member Yosse Beilin jointly proposed a plan 
which was never formally adopted by either side, but which ended up 
being very similar to what was again put forward and almost agreed 
upon in Camp David in 2000.  Here's a copy of that 1996 Beilin Abu 
Mazen document.

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1403961697/103-7628132-9187045?vi=glance
Sociolinguist Jim Gee's thoughtful and provocative book about what 
video game makers know about learning (in his view, a lot).

The Future of Freedom
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring03/004764.htm
Whether you like him or not, Indian-born Fareed Zakaria, former 
editor of Foreign Affairs, could become the first Muslim Secretary of 
State in the US.  Here's his new book outlining his thoughts about 
the relationship between liberty (in his view, underrated) and 
democracy (in his view, overvalued).

Pew Internet and American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/
Lots of up-to-date surveys about the Internet in US life

Google News
http://news.google.com/
In case you haven't seen it yet, Google's automatically generated news site.

Mark Warschauer's recent papers
http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/papers.html
About 40 papers I've published or presented in the last seven years.