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...extra drama, make sure you catch one of Sepang's "track days." This is when enthusiasts are allowed to take their own cars around the same track used by the pros. If you're without wheels, hook up with one of the track-day regulars-many offer high-speed rides and lessons. Call the Sepang Circuit on (60-19) 383 7865 for an introduction, dates and costs. And put Malaysian rubber to the use that nature intended...
Encryption wasn't the biggest problem in creating Joost. The primary puzzle was piecing together a network powerful enough to stream near DVD-quality, full-screen video to millions of computers simultaneously. The trick, it turned out, was to employ distributed computer power, using viewers' own PCs to speed video along. Having developed similar person-to-person networks for Kazaa and Skype--to transmit music files and phone calls through the Net--Joost's engineers finally nailed the solution last summer. Shouts of joy went up when they streamed their first video. It depicted, appropriately enough, sharks circling prey...
...Presidential campaigning were about something other than politics, how would the current crop of candidates fare? Take speed dating. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is on wife no. 3, was judged most likely to be best at the new matchmaking technique - outdistancing Barack Obama by 3 points and New York Senator Hillary Clinton by 4, in a new TIME poll. Giuliani came in second when voters were asked to name which Presidential candidate they'd most like as a teammate on The Apprentice (5 points behind Hillary Clinton). But asked which candidate would be the best boss...
...trumpeted it as proof that Iraq has a viable future. But parliamentarians and Iraq's oil unions have already begun mobilizing against the draft legislation, arguing that it is a desperate attempt by al-Maliki's government to satisfy Western demands, which could damage Iraq's economic future and speed the country's ultimate disintegration...
Propelled by the success of the Selfridges store, Future Systems may be approaching its warp-speed moment, meaning it's poised for serious takeoff. It has under way two major projects in Italy, that museum for the Maserati car company in Modena and a subway station in Naples that's a collaboration with Anish Kapoor. He's the British artist best known in the U.S. for Cloud Mirror, the reflective steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park that locals call the Bean. Obviously, beans are a developing theme here...