Q: What is magic realism? A: "Magic Realism is an American style of art with Surrealist overtones. The art is deeply rooted in everyday reality, but has overtones of fantasy or wonder."

The Un-Google: "Overture stock has fallen 75% from its glory days in late 1999. In addition to the Internet taint, Overture suffers from fears that privately held Google--the dominant force in the search field--will run it out of business. Not likely. Overture's business is based on selling shopping information, unlike Google's more general variety of search. Its 73,000 advertisers pay Overture when a user chooses the advertiser's offering."

Al Qaeda, Anthrax and Ayman: "Vice President Cheney, CIA Director Tenet, Gorbachev, the former chief arms inspector in Iraq, and the former head CIA agent in Iraq all have said that they believe that Al Qaeda is responsible for the anthrax attacks. A growing number of commentators agree -- urging that the publicly known evidence about means, opportunity, modus operandi and motive in the Amerithrax investigation points to Al Qaeda. The argument, however, is far stronger than has been made to date."

2006 FIFA World Cup emblem unveiled: "In front of 500 guests of honour and media representatives, the emblem of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany was unveiled at a festive and spectacular show on Tuesday. The presentation was held in the state-of-the-art AufSchalke Arena in Gelsenkirchen."

Needless words: "The words 'click here for...' and 'click here to...' serve no purpose within links. Unfortunately, many news sites still use them. According to Google, click here is on about 8,970 pages at sptimes.com alone."

The e-waste land: "It had to end here, in an impoverished region of Asia. Once a peaceful, rice-growing village, Guiyu, in the Guangdong province of China, has become an electronic junkyard - a grotesque, sci-fi fusion of technology and deprivation. Guiyu, and many places like it in India, Vietnam, Singapore and Pakistan, is where electrical waste from the west is routinely shipped for "recycling". Around 100,000 men, women and children in Guiyu make $1.50 (94p) a day, breaking discarded computers and other electronic goods - mainly American, but also from the UK - into component materials of steel, aluminium, copper, plastic and gold."

Rules for public land use may be relaxed: "The Interior Department wants to make it easier to exempt from environmental reviews any activities it sees as having minor effect on public lands, the agency's top lawyer said. The Bush administration is also determined to stop the use of the Endangered Species Act as a 'zoning tool' on federal lands, said William Myers, the department's solicitor general. 'It has gotten to the point where you can hardly dig a post hole without having to do an environmental analysis,' Myers said in a speech Thursday to about 100 members of the Nevada Cattlemen's Association, who welcomed his criticism of what they regard as onerous conservation measures. The cattlemen are among those critical of grazing reforms adopted under the Clinton administration, which they claim are aimed at driving sheep and cattle off public land in the West. "

When Parents Say No to Child Vaccinations: "Most families opting out of vaccination here have obtained "philosophical exemptions" from normal vaccination requirements - exemptions that in Washington and several other states, including California and Colorado, can be claimed simply by signing a school form."

Face transplants possible within a year: "Face transplants will be technically possible within six to nine months - now the public must decide whether the procedure is ethically acceptable, says a leading UK plastic surgeon."

Demand for Garcia Marquez memoir spurs second printing in Mexico: "The first volume of the memoirs of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez sold out in Mexico only two weeks after it appeared, forcing the publisher to put out a larger edition to meet the demand. Publishing house Diana said Tuesday that it began to distribute 100,000 copies of a second printing of "Vivir para contarla" (Live to Tell It) - double the initial run - this past weekend."