Offbeat China reports that book sharing sites hosting "slash fiction" material have been shut down, including one of the country's most popular self-publishing sites, jjwxc.net.
"Library-collection budgets have been slashed, and materials are already moving more slowly from campus to campus.
A preview of the changes shows that the board will slash the amount of material students need to know for the tests and provide, for the first time, a curriculum framework for what courses should look like.
Weak demand and excess supply have caused prices for commodity memory chips to crash, and many of the former leaders in the field, including most of the Japanese manufacturers who dominated it in the 1980's and 1990's, have given up trying to slash their labor and material costs deeply enough to make them profitable.
The culprits: slowing growth in China, a voracious buyer of commodities, and a U.S. housing recession that, he says, will slash demand for building materials like copper and weigh down the global economy.
The newest standards, which take effect in 2006, will require diesel fuel to become almost sulfur free, and force buses and big rigs to slash emissions of smog-producing material by more than 90percentt.
In many landscapes, he added, "you've enhanced the natural combustibility" by building hundreds of thousands of homes in fire-prone areas, and for years suppressing natural fires, allowing a buildup of combustible materials like the "slash" debris left behind by logging.
This slashes transport, material and manufacturing costs, all driving down costs. .
"We can slash the huge cost, time and material needed for gigantic traditional optical space telescopes with large curved mirrors," Bulbul said.
