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...there is no electricity and no running water indoors, and yet there's Sunsilk and Omo." When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October, Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator - a basic computer - for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola recently unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India...
...There is no reason why this use doesn’t extend to people after college,” he said. “Peoples’ lives are different but there is still a basic informational need...
Zelnick acknowledges that that's a minority view in the news business. What most journalists are trying to take away from the debacle is a clearer sense of how best to report the news. It appears that some lessons, basic as they might be, need to be relearned. As a chastened Whitaker told TIME, "You have to be prepared to defend the accuracy of everything that appears in the magazine--no matter how short." --With reporting by Sean Gregory and Barbara Kiviat/New York and John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...will offer prospects a 15-month enlistment option, instead of the usual two- to six-year hitch they're currently asked to sign. But will the shorter stint really solve the Army's recruiting woes? For one thing, those 15 months come only after the recruit has completed basic and advanced individual training, which can take another three to six months depending on the job a recruit is headed for. Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, argues the Army should make the commitment 15 months total, coupled with generous education benefits, and market it to a group...
...were unanimous [that one of the] basic principles is that the way you make Allston integral to a new Harvard would be to have an undergraduate presence there,” said Graham, who co-chaired the task force with Scalise. “Without [it], Allston is being set up to be a satellite...