Word: virtualization
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...deny basic human rights (such as access to clean drinking water, food, sanitation and security) to Palestinians because they may be of a darker shade than most Israelis. Israel’s actions, rather, stem from a misconception that Israeli security can be guaranteed through the muting and virtual subjugation of the Palestinian peoples. That the Israeli soldiers conducting raids into the occupied territories are “whiter” than the Palestinians they are uprooting is merely coincidental, and therefore inconsequential...
...they put in a full day's work with votes, but they try to get out of town by Thursday evening with the last vote scheduled no later than around 6 p.m. And you can forget Friday for any constructive work; walk around the Capitol and it's a virtual ghost town...
...been listening in for years. Israeli intelligence officials tell TIME they have had access to almost every phone call, fax or e-mail that has gone out of Arafat's West Bank headquarters, located in a military compound called the Muqata'a in Ramallah, where he has been a virtual prisoner since December. They also claim to have human intelligence, "moles," working the inside...
...Eleven's 98-store pilot program in Texas and Florida, the virtual-commerce, or Vcom, kiosks can cash checks and transfer money. The convenience-store chain is targeting the 9.5% of U.S. households that don't have bank accounts, as well as on-the-go Internet junkies who want to download driving directions while grabbing a Slurpee. For 7-Eleven's nationwide rollout later this year, Vcom users will be able to pay their Verizon bill and eventually have touch-screen access to event ticketing and online shopping...
...then there's the Fed, for who a virtual tax on consumers and businesses means only one thing - higher prices, without higher profits or faster growth. High energy costs will force Alan Greenspan to step in with interest-rate hikes much sooner than he would like in order to control prices and avoid that 70s bogeyman, stagflation. The very thing that is helping the Middle East push those energy prices up - the nascent U.S. and global economic recovery - could be those price hikes' first victim...