Word: networked
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...Minister made no response. Angry and isolated, Arafat prepared to send a message Barak couldn't ignore. He held a series of midnight meetings in late September with local leaders of his Fatah party's Tanzim. The Tanzim, which means "organization," is an armed militia that answers to a network of local warlords. "Be ready. We will be facing difficult times," Arafat told the leaders. Officials close to Arafat say he was counting on a tough Israeli response to trouble, followed by international condemnation of Israel...
...Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express, were putting the finishing touches on a broad alliance--a striking move, since Smith has long been an outspoken critic of the USPS Although details are still sketchy, the deal would reportedly give the government carrier access to the air network of the company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand FedEx the Postal Service's crown jewel: the exclusive, government-mandated right to open...
...fastest supercomputer in the world doesn't really exist. Or rather, it exists, but only in a virtual sense: as a network of machines scattered around the globe, linked via the Internet to three powerful servers grinding away in a lab at the University of California, Berkeley. SETI@home, as the sprawling system is known, has been online for about a year searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence by tapping into the spare number-crunching power of (at last count) 2.3 million...
Becoming part of a distributed-computing network is easy. You simply log onto a website and download free data-crunching software that doubles as a snazzy screensaver. Anytime you go online after that, the computer contacts a server that beams you a small packet of data for your PC to analyze. The calculations are performed whenever your computer is idle; the next time you log on, the results are beamed back to the server, where they are combined with those sent in by other PCs. Like any other screensaver, the system is utterly unobtrusive. Tap a key, touch a mouse...
...network's counting on her to deliver more than celebrity methane. This season the networks have recruited scads of established celebs to draw viewers (see box), always a risk. (Nathan Lane's crash-and-burn in 1998's Encore! Encore! hovers like Marley's ghost over star vehicles.) On Bette, CBS has placed a huge, um, wager, running it opposite Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (which provides a cute running gag in one early episode). "It's probably the most anticipated show of the new season," says CBS television president Leslie Moonves, "and that's a huge burden...