Winners & Losers

Posted By Blake Hounshell Friday, March 9, 2007 - 6:25 PM Share

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Winners

India's 36 billionaires: Leave the rest of the region in the dust.

Aromatherapists: New sleep study hands quacks a new, legitimate line of business on a silver platter.

Robots: South Korean experts aim to protect them from abuse. (Don't laugh. Widespread adoption of a robot code of ethics may save humankind from a massive cyborg retaliation someday.)

Chinese scientists: The research money is raining down like a Shanghai monsoon.

Obsessive liberal bloggers: It was Fitzmas after all.

Losers

The Fourth Estate: But will the Libby verdict end the press's special privileges?

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Newt: Former House Speaker finally admits to having an extramarital affair while leading the charge to impeach Bill Clinton for ... lying about an extramarital affair.

Saudi women: "A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes -- for meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported on Monday." - AFP

Norway: Sued by ostracized Nazi offspring.

Gun-control advocates: Federal appeals court strikes DC handgun ban.

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