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Under the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), Erdmann was handed his orders—the man who only three years before had handed in his dissertation was now being held responsible for bringing Iraq’s university system up to speed with the rest of the international community. Among his mandates were: the “normalization” of Iraq’s scientific community; de-Baathification; and the opening of communication with the international academic community...
...It’s been over a year since I was in a game situation, so it’s good to get out there, get things running full speed again...
...have happened after other recessions, but this shift is different. To some extent, companies are gun-shy about committing to full-time workers and the attendant fringe benefits. Instead of rushing to expand their computer systems and hiring people to maintain them, firms are keeping their outsourcing companies on speed dial...
...technology, more kinds of work can now be spun off into contracts rather than tied to employees. Once a person's labor can be reduced to a contract, it matters little whether the contract is filled in India or Indiana; the only relevant issue is cost. And the speed of technological change accelerates the process. As soon as a job becomes routine enough to describe in a spec sheet, it becomes vulnerable to outsourcing. Jobs like data entry, which are routine by nature, were the first among obvious candidates for outsourcing. But with today's advanced engineering, design and financial...
...videos in one place sounds great--except when you're on the road. That's why a new company called BravoBrava in Union City, Calif., is developing AllMiMedia Premium, which will let you remotely access digital-media files from any PC equipped with Windows Media Player and a high-speed Internet connection. Imagine checking into a hotel, flipping open your laptop and watching any movie from your home DVD collection or playing any song stored on your home PC. Available in late 2004 for owners of Media Center PCs (a new kind of multimedia PC), AllMiMedia Premium will work...