Red Wolves, Microsoft & Falun Gong

The two red wolf pups transplanted from Brevard Zoo to Beardsley Zoo are doing fine with their new little brother. And their wild cousins in North Carolina can breathe a little easier thanks to the Supreme Court's refusal to overturn a lower court ruling protecting red wolves that wander onto private property. Not so lucky are the newly classified Red Wolves in Algonquin who, thanks to the short-sightedness of the Canadian Government's refusal of a year round ban on wolf-killing, may well disappear forever.

Microsoft is launching an offensive against what it sees as its chief competition on the Internet: open-source code. A stance that IBM see as futile and counterproductive.

Falun Gong proponents continue to elude China's security forces by using mobile phones and obscure Internet services to keep followers connected.