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Feb
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Despite the large number of Hispanic voters seeking information online, analysis from Lionbridge Technologies , the world’s largest translation services provider, shows that the presidential candidates are using the Web to communicate with Hispanic voters in a very limited way. Lionbridge research shows that Spanish language content represents less than 9 percent of the total available English content offered by the candidates’ bi- lingual web sites.
— Presidential Candidates Make Limited Use of the Web to Target Hispanic Voters (Lionbridge PR)
Feb
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Translation Station” client list
— The Translation Station, an InterLingua company, translates and interprets from 150 languages for clients in healthcare, legal, education, governmental, retailing, global trade, technology, entertainment, publishing
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scientific magazine selling articles to German equivalent
— American Scientist Online - Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island
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Stu Jay Raj - Polyglot Speaks over 15 Languages on Joh Jai (via )

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Engadget

“Engadget is a popular technology weblog and podcast (with the latter on hold as of August 31, 2007) about consumer electronics. The weblog has won several awards. Engadget currently has four different sites, all operating simultaneously with each having its own staff, which cover technology news in different parts of the world in their respective languages. The U.S. Engadget site made its 20,000th post on August 25, 2006.” - Wikipedia 
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Knuts Blog

several languages translated inline by contributers  
May
14th
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The National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and Smithsonian Institution budget $2 million in funding to protect 6,000-7,000 declining languages.
— NPR : A Plan to Save Thousands of Endangered Languages
May
13th
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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a team from the Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology has stumbled on a major Coptic trove buried under the remains of a sixth-century monastery located in front of a Middle Kingdom tomb
— Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Coptic trove
May
6th
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Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.
— Exile in Godville - Profile of a postmodern heretic