Word: centralization
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...were to shut it down in America, it would move to Canada or somewhere else," says Boies. "There's a reason they call it the World Wide Web--it's literally worldwide." At the same time, newer, more decentralized file-sharing systems like Gnutella and Freenet, which have no central authority in charge, are emerging. When people use those services to exchange pirated music, it will be hard to find anyone...
...Hapgood's action spins around three agents in the British secret service who are trying to determine how classified information from their top-secret particle physics lab is getting back to Moscow. Someone is a double agent and everyone would seem a suspect, though the loveability of the three central characters makes their criminality slightly implausible...
...someone so central to the process, Ross could not be more self-effacing. Of the three primary U.S. negotiators of the post-cold war era--the other two are George Mitchell, who helped midwife the Northern Irish peace, and Richard Holbrooke, the brash, Balkan knucklebuster and current U.N. Ambassador--Ross is far and away the most modest. While Holbrooke is known for his deft use of sycophancy and insinuation--key tools of diplomacy when used properly--Ross uses a different method. "Dennis makes up for that lack of flattery and manipulation through trust and discretion," says a former confidant...
...terrible as these numbers are, they're bound to get worse. While some of the talk in Durban focused on modest advances in AIDS treatment--and on South African President Thabo Mbeki's flirtation with discredited ideas about what causes AIDS--the central dilemma of the conference was how to fight this voracious plague under the conditions that made the continent so vulnerable in the first place...
...America's libraries. He deployed high-tech task forces that fanned out across the U.S. equipped with computers, modems and software, bridging the digital divide for poorer school districts. There is a room on the second floor of the Gates Foundation's new Seattle office complex that is command central for that initiative, where huge national maps are studded with pins showing which library districts have been wired--22,530 computers in 4,540 libraries in the U.S. and 4,024 computers in 1,435 libraries in Canada. So far, about $92 million has been spent on the library program...