SEATTLE -- A high school student is suing Amazon.com Inc. for deleting an e-book he purchased for the Kindle reader, saying his electronic notes were bollixed, too.

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WASHINGTON - Technology that keeps hackers out and lets government investigators share sensitive terrorism information can also protect the privacy of citizens, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday.

“The son of Sen. Flake illustrates why full-time fathering is important.”

The Fourth Amendment is the source of Americans’ right to privacy but while the home is sacrosanct the courts have said that a citizen in a public place has no reasonable expectation of privacy.

WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ownership is full of loopholes and will lead to a wave of mergers and fewer choices for consumers.

Screening the film adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984” isn’t exactly the most festive way to celebrate one’s upcoming birthday, but after reading the Tribune’s “Nerdvana” column’s recommending it this coming Friday, I couldn’t help but reserve a seat.

Taking a page from George Orwell, the Scottsdale City Council decided Monday to toughen its Sexually Oriented Business Ordinance in a manner that well could drive the city’s two topless bars out of business.

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? She asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don’t know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.”

“President Obama just signed a law that allows for indefinite detention, without charges or trial, of American citizens suspected of terroristic activities. I thought George Orwell’s ‘1984’ was a stern warning of what our future would hold if Americans let their liberties slip away. Instead, ‘1984’ has become a how-to manual for the left.”

George Orwell, in his “1984” book, used the word “groupthink” to mean the making of sheep-like decisions as a group while discouraging individual thought. Well, here’s an antonym I call “Reverse-Think,” meaning to NOT think like the group.

I’ve always known it: Readers quite often say it better than — well, the usual columnists. In an unusual move, I’ve dedicated this space to a letter written by Diana Smith, the mother of nine children, grandmother of seven children. Smith, a long time East Valley resident is doing what she can to awaken women to frightening games being played in the political arena. She warns women their emotions are manipulated, while their freedoms to choose for themselves are at high risk. Read on:

Powerful older women and public radio personalities will headline the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ 2006-07 season.

Powerful older women and public radio personalities will headline the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ 2006-07 season.

Like the police officers he served with and thousands more he never met, Phoenix officer Eric White’s time on the job was filled with many unrecognized acts of heroism.

While in college I read a George Orwell novel called “Animal Farm.” In it a revolution was inspired by the animals to kick the intolerant farmer Jones off his farm, and thus the animals assumed the leadership. However, shortly thereafter the pigs assumed a subtle takeover of the leadership and quickly changed the political organization from one of a democracy to that of a despotic elite run by the pigs.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's Parliament narrowly approved a law Wednesday that gives authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that crosses the Nordic nation's borders.

To paraphrase George Orwell, "all illegals are illegal, but some are more illegal than others." As — well, Orwellian as that may sound, it’s actually the way federal immigration authorities do business in Arizona.

Students and faculty at Arizona State University are hoping to invent not only the technology of the future, but also the narrative that accompanies those advances.

Students and faculty at Arizona State University are hoping to invent not only the technology of the future, but also the narrative that accompanies those advances.

Although Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” was published in 1999, it remains a popular sensation amongst the high school crowd to this day. A semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age tale, “Perks” follows a teenage boy as he navigates the tumultuous waters that are high school.

Robert L. Hale: Thirty-eight state budgets are in the red. The Government Accountability Office estimates that federal debt, on a per-household basis, is between $299,880 and $754,095. The difference is based on whether all households are counted or just those that pay income taxes. The GAO points out that the debt is the result of entitlements and unrestrained government spending.

Think back. What were you reading around March 3, March 19 and April 6, 2004? That was about the time Sen. John Kerry clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in his challenge against President Bush.