The DIARY

Live Blogging the iPad Product Announcement

Over and Out

Update | 3:15 p.m. We’re done with the live blog. Check back on Bits later for our impressions after touching the iPad, as well as more analysis of its implications. You can also read our article about the Apple presentation as well as David Pogue’s first impressions.

What’s Missing

Update | 2:45 p.m. Expectations were very high for this device. Some missing features that many people were expecting:

No ability to play Adobe Flash animations, widely used on the Web.

No camera, still or video

No non-Internet phone function

Unclear whether you can bundle your AT&T iPhone plan with an iPad data plan

No removable battery for a device that can suck a lot of power

No removable storage

By BRAD STONE

Beijing Journal

Stitching the Narrative of a Revolution

Peasants recited quotations from Mao’s “Little Red Book” before toiling in the fields in a village near Beijing in July of 1967.

In a handwritten series of 1972 speeches, many of them heavily edited in pen, a teacher from Beijing’s outskirts recalled how his comrades “patiently and delicately” sought to reform a teacher who was not a worker, but a member of the wealthy class. Rounds of criticism had little effect, so the group chose to help him realize his mistakes through physical labor, by weeding farmland.

“He pulled grass,” the speech read. “At first, he was squatting, but he couldn’t handle it after two days. Then he pulled the grass while kneeling. Finally, he did it while crawling.”

Party censors excised the tale of the exhausted teacher from the final draft of the speech.

In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent

This article was reported by John Markoff, David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker, and written by Mr. Sanger.

WASHINGTON — On a Monday morning earlier this month, top Pentagon leaders gathered to simulate how they would respond to a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the nation’s power grids, its communications systems or its financial networks.

The results were dispiriting. The enemy had all the advantages: stealth, anonymity and unpredictability.