For worldwide interoperability, URIs have to be encoded uniformly. To map the wide range of characters used worldwide into the 60 or so allowed characters in a URI, a two-step process is used:
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The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it has suspended funding new human embryonic stem cell research and that all federally funded experiments already underway will be cut off when they come up for renewal if a new court order is not overturned.
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Apple made the unusual move this week of saying it would post a live video stream of its 1 p.m. media event. Usually you have to be in the audience with Steve Jobs to hear the announcements live.
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Former England captain David Beckham hopes to play for the LA Galaxy against Columbus Crew on 11 September. [more]
The German central bank calls on the country's president to dismiss one of its board members over comments he made about immigration and Jews. [more]
Publisher more than triples quarterly sales to $354.1 million; L.A. Noire officially delayed to first half of next year. [more]