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...Estonia (pop. 1.35 million) was the first former Soviet republic to introduce its own currency and adopt a flat-tax system, now widely copied in the rest of Eastern Europe. It has also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking, buy bus tickets or check your children's school schedule. Wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous, and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which eBay acquired for $2.6 billion. That's slightly more than the annual output...
...IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. JUDI, YOU PLAY M IN THE JAMES BOND FILMS, AND PART OF YOUR CELL-PHONE NUMBER...
TIME is right. It is the age of "Me." Cell-phone users hold personal conversations loud enough for the world to hear. Drivers swerve down the freeway, coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other, honking and worrying about no one but themselves. Totally uninteresting people make videos describing their lives. Has all this noise made things better? Maybe the next Persons of the Year should be "They," so people might actually consider the existence of other human beings...
...capacity of Harvard’s buildings—already 24 million square feet—by about 20 percent over the next two decades. And the plan includes possible locations for four undergraduate Houses along the south bank of the Charles. But Provost Steven Hyman, speaking by phone from Geneva, Switzerland, said that “the number of undergraduate students will stay the same.” The College’s student body now numbers slightly over...
...weakest link in Bush's plan is that it depends on the cooperation of Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. After a phone conference with the Iraqi leader, Pres. Bush said al-Maliki had promised U.S. forces would be given a free hand, and that "political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated." Such interference has in the past blighted U.S. efforts to curb the Shi'ite militias responsible for most of the sectarian killing, especially in Baghdad...