In one sentence on primary night in Wisconsin, U.S. Sen. John McCain nailed Barack Obama — and defined precisely the terms of the fall campaign.

Be not intimidated by the growing certainty that the rhetorically gifted Obama, and not his fingernails-across-the-chalkboard opponent, will emerge as McCain's opponent in November. With Hillary came the high negatives that gave Republicans hope of a built-in general election advantage. With Obama comes an army of high-end liberals, affluent and well-educated, along with an energized swell of blacks and the young drawn specifically to him. The prospect of running against a "movement" has unnerved some Republicans, to say nothing of those — affiliated or not — who have listened to Democrats lay out their vision for America through a long series of debates.

University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Institute Awards $85,000 to ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business today announced the recipients of the 2008 Eugene Applebaum Dare to Dream Grant Program and 2008 Michigan Business Challenge award. Grant recipients and award winners were presented with resources in the form of advice and counsel and funding totaling $85,000 for excellence in new business plans and concepts.

Bringing together entrepreneurial-minds from business, engineering, medicine and other departments at the University of Michigan, Dare to Dream and Michigan Business Challenge offer students the opportunity to develop and present their business plans, receive feedback from skilled entrepreneurs and faculty, and be rewarded with funding and support.

Canada fuelling production of ‘extreme ecstasy'

First there was methamphetamine, a stimulant that in assorted forms has been around for decades. Then came the designer drug ecstasy, otherwise known as MDMA and popularized by the rave culture that mushroomed in the 1990s. Now there's "extreme ecstasy," a blend of both drugs that U.S. authorities say is being manufactured in bulk in Canada and shipped wholesale across the border. .

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They declare a holiday, block the road to the city, and prohibit us from leaving the village.
—Ede woman from Dak Lak, interviewed in April 2006

For the last five years, the Central Highlands region of Vietnam has periodically erupted with social unrest. In 2001 and 2004, thousands of indigenous minority people, known as Central Highlanders or Montagnards,1 have joined mass demonstrations in the five provinces of the Central Highlands2 protesting religious repression and widespread confiscation of their ancestral lands, with some advocating self-rule or autonomy.3

The Vietnamese government has responded to such protests with force, with as many as ten demonstrators killed during demonstrations in April 2004.4 Authorities have arrested hundreds of activists, religious leaders, and individuals trying to flee to Cambodia, sometimes using torture to punish or extract information.5 In 2005, the Vietnamese government continued to crack down on Central Highlanders’ rights to freedom of religion, speech, and assembly, imprisoning more than 100 during the year.

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The few but high-quality jade articles used as burial objects may symbolize another type of funeral of the Liangzhu Culture.