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...first-time father at age 41. "But this was the point at which I had a child, and it was hard." Multitasking and an accelerated workflow present other challenges for the single-task-oriented male brain. And technological advances-from vibrating Blackberries to the addictive allure of high-speed Internet access at home-have made it all the harder to detach from work. Finally, when you consider the retrenchments and economic wipeouts that have set the temper of their working lives over the past decade-the financial crisis of 1997, the dotcom implosion of 2000, the downturn in the wake...
LARRY PAGE, Google co-founder and president, in a statement for an April Fool's Day prank in which a link posted on Google's home page connected to a site that supposedly offered consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems; Google called the program "Toilet Internet Service Provider...
Europe is ready for peacekeeping, but hardly for peacemaking in instruments other than North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), of which the United States is the master and commander. Therefore, it should speed up measures to allow to compliment the above soft power measures with harder power...
...embedded inside the cars causes the train to levitate 10 cm above the bottom of the track - "maglev" is short for magnetic levitation. The magnets also propel the train forward very, very quickly, in part because air creates less friction than rail. The Yamanashi test maglev set a world speed record for trains in 2003 at 361 mph, and it cruises...
...meet his friends who were clustered near the beach, anxiously staring out to sea. A few minutes later they saw a terrifying wall of water race up the main boat passage into the town. "We thought there was going to be death," says Baul. "It came about the speed of a man walking - then it got faster and faster...