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When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator--a basic computer--for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola last month unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion people who will be buying a phone...
...Westchester County in the rearview mirror. Jane and I did some catching up-Luci, Steve, kids, opinions on Pedro, who had pitched a two-hitter the day before, beating Smoltz-and then trained our thoughts on Fenway. It wasn't hard. When we transitioned to the Mass Pike via the toll booths, there was a large metal sign saluting the New England Patriots, World Champions, as we approached, and then the Boston Red Sox, World Champions, as we exited. We made a pit stop near Framingham and everyone-everyone-milling about at the McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts counters...
...whether women lack an innate ability to succeed and excel in science (that is simply not the case) but whether there are gender-based, neuronal differences in how males and females perceive input, frame scenarios and derive conclusions. If male and female scientists arrive at identical conclusions via similar yet subtly different pathways, it suggests that together we may reach a far greater understanding of any particular problem than through any single-gender effort. In the pursuit of scientific truth, the wealth of knowledge gained through diverse perspectives truly elevates us. I sincerely hope we're not all the same...
...world will learn of their decision, the story of how the news of the Pope's death broke on the wires may be instructive. Everyone was obviously in a race to be first to break the news, which was simultaneously released to dozens of news outlets via an email from Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. As AP's veteran Vatican correspondent Victor Simpson put it, ?In a case like this you just don't want to get beat.? But the bespectacled New Yorker, who has covered John Paul II's papacy from Day 1 was, in fact, pipped...
...Piero Marini, the papal master of ceremonies, and Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Pope John Paul II's longtime spokesman. Getting there, through the throngs of people on the streets of Vatican City was a major challenge. Watching on TV, you will have seen the hundreds of thousands jamming onto the Via Della Conciliazione, the wide boulevard leading up to St. Peter's Basilica. But what you don't see on TV is that the parallel side streets are also packed, wall to wall. The crowd here is of a scale unlike anything I've ever seen. Rubbing shoulders with the tens...