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...examine 5,000 to 6,000 pieces of intelligence, trying to assemble the best picture of what's out there. Staffed by representatives of about a dozen government entities, TTIC strives to address the failure of agencies to share vital intelligence before 9/11. "We have an FBI analyst who's sitting next to a CIA analyst who's sitting next to a Secret Service analyst who's sitting next to a Coast Guard analyst," says TTIC chief John Brennan, a senior CIA officer. "They take information from their different systems and say, 'Hey, have you seen this?' or 'Is this...
...offerings for $35 and $25 a month, respectively, since last year. But support of VOIP by AT&T, the largest long-distance carrier in the U.S., promises to bring the technology into the mainstream. "AT&T's entry should broadly legitimize VOIP for residential customers," says Steve Koppman, principal analyst for Gartner Group Dataquest. Research firm InStat/MDR estimates that as more major players, including Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (a sister company of TIME), roll out their announced VOIP services, the number of residential VOIP subscribers will rise from about...
...Michigan a bribe--in the form of a hefty contribution to his son's congressional campaign--to vote for the measure on Nov. 22. And the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began a probe into charges by Richard Foster, Medicare's top cost analyst, that the program's then administrator, Thomas Scully, threatened to fire him last June if he told Congress the prescription-drug bill would cost more than $500 billion, well above the $400 billion the Administration had publicly acknowledged. The higher number wasn't released until after the vote. (Scully denies...
...create a government enjoying satisfactory support." If a vote were held, the SDPL would take 19%, according to a poll published in the right-leaning daily Zycie, enough to make it the second-most powerful force in parliament. "Demand [for a new left-wing party] is big," says political analyst Janina Paradowska. "There is a climate of social expectation." If leaders like Schröder and Miller don't deliver on those expectations, they will face more mutinies in the ranks...
...allowed to sell the Media Player version of Windows for the same amount as the stripped one. Will consumers pay the same price for less? Manufacturers like Dell - which outside the U.S. includes only Microsoft's Media Player in its PCs - aren't answering yet. David Smith, U.S.-based analyst at tech researchers Gartner, says: ?Given a choice between two things that cost the same...