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...Nick Gibson, an analyst and virtual-world expert at London's Games Investor Consulting, calls it "an interesting idea." But he cautions that the main driver for online shopping "is price and convenience, rather than the social aspects of it." Most consumers, Gibson says, go online to buy something specific, so it's uncertain if they'll find causal shopping and browsing appealing. (See the top 10 video games...
...have had any knowledge of the 10 young men elsewhere in Pakistan who authorities say used those videos as guides to Mumbai months later. LeT is allegedly utilizing this model around the world. "LeT started out as a provincial group in southern Punjab," says Wilson John, an expert on terrorism at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. "It's now networked across the globe...
...speech was certainly very general," says Rob Puentes, an expert on infrastructure investment at Brookings, who was still trying to work out on Tuesday afternoon what Obama had meant hours earlier when he called for a "boost in investment in the nation's infrastructure...
...health services varies from state to state.) This does not come cheap for the government, which pays about 60% of all long-term-care costs in the U.S.; only about 5% of Americans currently have private long-term-care insurance. "Medicaid is invaluable," says Judy Feder, a health policy expert at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. "But it's not insurance. It doesn't protect you from catastrophe. It takes care of you after catastrophe." (See 10 health care reform...
...fighter jets from EADS, Dassault and Saab. This is the biggest single tender ever floated by the Indian military, and the decision will be influenced as much by geopolitics as by technical superiority. "Strategic weapons are not only about technology," says Deba Ranjan Mohanty, a defense expert at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. "It's also about building relationships with the country." Those in the running will have about two years to demonstrate how willing they are to share technology and how closely their national interests are aligned. A state dinner is just a start. See pictures...