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...grew up there. Other than Long Island, it’s the strangest place in America...
Taiwan is the world's premier electronics factory, but the world doesn't know it. The island's nimble manufacturers produce more than two-thirds of the globe's LCD monitors, nearly three out of four notebook PCs, and four-fifths of PDAs. Yet most of this digital gear is made under contracts with big foreign tech companies like HP, Apple and Dell and is resold to consumers carrying those well-known brand names. No longer...
...peace-minded people should support it as it can pave the way for greater collaboration." NIMALAN KARTHIKEYAN, assistant general secretary of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, on the government's approval of a controversial plan allowing Tamil Tiger separatists to share $3 billion in aid for the island's tsunami victims...
...said the National Geographic Society last week. After a five-year search and computerized scrutiny of documents, including Columbus' log, the society announced it was "98% certain" Columbus landed some 65 miles southeast of San Salvador on flat Samana Cay. The tiny island has long been uninhabited, but a search party stumbled onto pieces of Palmetto ware, a unique pottery made by the regional people Columbus named Indians. Says National Geographic Senior Associate Editor Joseph Judge, who led the search: "This is the solution to the mystery after 500 years." TECHNOLOGY Politics' Unholy Writ...
Fast-growing financial services and aggressive retailing long ago transformed Singapore into an Asian powerhouse. Yet the island nation is also notorious for a less reputable trade. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has slapped a total ban on wildlife imports from Singapore because of its refusal to obey international protections for rare animals. A typical victim: the pangolin, a cute-as-a-button mammal, rather like an anteater, that is on the endangered list in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand but has been winding up in American-made handbags and cowboy boots. The illicit traffic is covered up with sketchy...