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...that will for a time, make them still relevant. They are low-cost or no cost, they are highly portable, and you can scan through more bits of information on a printed news page faster than you can on a PC, online, on a PDA or on a cell phone. So it's a very efficient means of presenting information. The two attributes it lacks are timeliness, because it is tied to a once-a-day publishing schedule, and interactivity. If those two attributes can be solved technologically, there's a huge, robust future for newspapers...
...need land, you have to pay a bribe," says Kazimi, the former Commerce Minister. "Electricity, you have to pay someone off. To import goods, you have to pay baksheesh. Everyone has a 'tax.'" Those who refuse to pay risk losing out to their business rivals. When Roshan, a cellular-phone company jointly owned by the Geneva-based Aga Khan Development Network, Monaco Telecom and MCT Corp. of the U.S., began building a network in Afghanistan in 2002, transmission equipment languished in customs for months, says Roshan CEO Karim Khoja, because the company refused to pay bribes. Leases on prime land...
...have often taken different approaches in instituting reform.Anene, an Eliot resident who says he was an “all-American kid” in high school, was elected to the UC his freshman year.Hoping to finally extend dining hall hours, he spearheaded a phone survey of “hundreds of freshmen,” wrote a 20-page position paper about the issue, and met with administrators.Two years later dining hall hours still haven’t budged—but Anene says the experience gave him “a better feel for how the University actually...
...TIME Mobile, now you can read Quotes of the Day from TIME.com on the Web browser of your cell phone. Go to mobile.time.com
...because oddly enough, my grandkids [ages 17, 10 and 8] are very well-mannered. They know not to bring a cell phone into a theater. If they see an adult screaming at a coach, they know it's not the way it's supposed...