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...Rumsfeld's declaration reflects a shift in the orientation of U.S. operations away from large-scale sweeps - such as Operation Valiant Strike, which saw some 1,000 U.S. soldiers trawl through southeastern Afghanistan in March - that are designed to root out Taliban and al-Qaeda diehards. Such operations haven't proved particularly effective in eliminating the small, mobile enemy formations that continue to operate throughout eastern and southern Afghanistan, across the border in Pakistan's tribal areas (where the local elected leadership is openly pro-Taliban) and in the Taliban's Pashtun heartland...
...significance of the digital revolution. "It's not piracy per se but a transition to a digital world that will transform what a record company is and how it works," says EMI's Rose. "While downloading is an important issue, it's just symbolic of a much more fundamental shift in how music will be moved and acquired by consumers and be used...
...more with the gallons of free liquor being dispensed at dozens of booths than with statistics, like the one from the National Restaurant Association indicating that bar revenues barely kept pace with inflation in 2002. In part, the sluggishness can be traced to a post-9/11 shift in leisure tastes. After the terrorist attacks, business dropped off at upscale restaurants and clubs. "People would still go out, but not to spend as they did before," says Michael Harrelson, editor of the trade publication Nightclub...
...free flow of information is in?an unusual shift in a country where the press is monitored and muzzled. Daily newspapers are saturated with coverage of the crisis; reporting includes exhaustively detailed regional and national tallies of the number of SARS victims. Beijing's new Mayor Wang Qishan, who replaced the disgraced Meng Xuenong on April 20, willingly parried with foreign journalists last week during a press conference aired live on local TV?a radical departure for a leadership that sometimes even scripts the angle of a handshake between two officials. Likewise China's new tag team...
...hesitant to spend money on a virus that could disappear soon. That means most of the research is left to the cash-strapped public sector, and progress is slow. Even the most optimistic researchers believe a vaccine will take two years to develop?assuming the virus doesn't shape-shift as readily as HIV, making it almost impossible to produce a one-size-fits-all vaccine...