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A photo exhibit on Peru's 20-year war is looking for a home.

The Chinese government is cracking down on Internet use--like, cracking even more down--especially blogging.

Prime ministers resigned in Pakistan and the Czech Republic, although the latter story doesn't seem to be online.

There's a debate over whether the Preble's meadow jumping mouse is really an endangered species, but both sides seem to agree it's about more than the scientific question:

Environmentalists say, for example, that what's good for a Preble's - clean water to drink and open land on which to jump - is good for other earthborn mortals too, including humans, and that having the mouse on the threatened list has been a powerful lever to safeguard the regional environment in a rapidly developing corner of the West. If the mouse goes, they say, so too will those protections to the land. The mouse's threatened status has compelled communities that are building new water projects to leave areas undisturbed for mouse habitat, park managers to keep hikers and bikers on trails, and ranchers to take extra care in maintaining drainage ditches where the mice can cluster.

The idea that we need to lie to ourselves about a mouse to get us to maintain clean water and open land makes me embarrassed to be human.

Gay marriage would lower the deficit.

Two obits: Stuart Hampshire, the moral philosopher, and Danny Dark, the voice of "Sorry, Charlie" and Superman.