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Editorial Notebook Egg Factory By VERLYN KLINKENBORG Published: August 28, 2010 On Friday, most of the country’s major newspapers, including The Times, featured reports from a small town called Clarion, Iowa. Just outside Clarion are the egg operations, owned by the DeCoster family, at the heart of the salmonella outbreak. The factory — no point calling it a farm — called Wright County Egg, is t..

Editorial North Korea’s Latest Tantrum Published: July 23, 2010 North Korea is threatening a “physical response” to joint American-South Korean naval exercises scheduled to begin on Sunday off the Korean Peninsula. China, which has abetted its neighbor’s excesses for too long, needs to ensure that the North’s bluster is only bluster. And it needs to tone down its own. 북한은 한반도 해상에서 일요일로 예정된 한미연합 ..

Editorial The Google Algorithm Published: July 14, 2010 Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their traffic. When Google engineers tweak its supersecret algorithm — as they do hundreds of times a year — they can break the business of a Web site that is pushed down the rankings. 구글은 전세계적으로 인..

Editorial Gambling Fever Published: July 4, 2010 Gamblers aren’t the only ones prone to jackpot delusions. Politicians all over see casinos as magic revenue chests that will help them avoid painful spending cuts, escape the trap of no-tax pledges and make budget gaps vanish. New York is no exception. 도박꾼들만 잭팟의 환상에 빠져있는 게 아니다. 정치꾼들은 완전히 카지노를 고통스런 지출삭감을 피하고, 무과세 공약의 덫에서 빠져 나오고, 예산부족을 사라지게 해주는 마법의 ..

Editorial Dial-Up Law in a Broadband World Published: April 8, 2010 The Internet has given the government powerful 21st-century tools for invading people’s privacy and monitoring their activities, but the main federal law governing online privacy is a 20th-century relic. Adopted in 1986, it has had trouble keeping up with technological advances and is now badly out of date. 인터넷은 정부에게 사람들의 사생활을 침..

Editorial Google and China Published: March 23, 2010 Google’s decision to stop censoring its search service in China on Monday was a principled and brave move, a belated acknowledgment that Internet companies cannot enable a government’s censorship without becoming a de facto accomplice to repression. 월요일 중국에서의 검색엔진서비스 검열을 중단한 구글의 결정은 원칙에 의거한 용감한 조치였다. 정부의 검열을 가능하게 하면 사실상 억압의 공범자가 된다는 걸 뒤늦게 인정한 ..

Editorial Climate Change Published: February 21, 2010 Yvo de Boer’s resignation on Thursday after nearly four tumultuous years as chief steward of the United Nations’ climate change negotiations has deepened a sense of pessimism about whether the world can ever get its act together on global warming. Mr. de Boer was plainly exhausted by endless bickering among nations and frustrated by the failu..