>> A California law that banned the sale or rental of violent video games to minors was struck down February 26 by a US
federal appeals court
>> More than 1,815 digital maps will be completed in 2009 marking official and clandestine roads, rivers, settlements, and
schools in Brazillian Amazon. Cartographers from Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics and the country's army will
draw the maps.
>> With 196 of its languages listed as endangered, India tops the UNESCO's list of countries having dialects on the verge of
extinction. The US stands to lose 192 languages. The facts were revealed in the Atlas of World's Languages in Danger of
Disappearing.
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