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...realities described in Aparisim Ghosh's harrowing account of a day in the emergency room at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital [May 16]. Conditions couldn't be worse for the medical staff and the unfortunate victims of insurgent attacks. But most frustrating is the bungling ineptitude in providing Iraqis with basic health-care essentials. After all, the U.S. Congress just gave the Bush Administration an added $82 billion to spend on the war. So now even more U.S. taxpayer money will go to Iraq reconstruction efforts, and some of it will disappear in the process. Companies like Halliburton will profit...
...realities described in Aparisim Ghosh's harrowing account of a day in the emergency room at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital [May 16]. Conditions couldn't be worse for the medical staff and the unfortunate victims of insurgent attacks. But most frustrating is the bungling ineptitude in providing Iraqis with basic health-care essentials. After all, the U.S. Congress just gave the Bush Administration an added $82 billion to spend on the war. So now even more U.S. taxpayer money will go to Iraq reconstruction efforts, and some of it will disappear in the process. Companies like Halliburton will profit...
Dads, grads, men, women, young and old, all of them want an ultracompact digital camera. The basic specs: five megapixels, a 3X optical zoom lens, a thin body and a face with a surface area hardly larger than a credit card. Sony's T1 set the bar a year and a half back, but by now the field is littered. Sony has since replaced its T1 with two models, the T33 and the improbably slim T7, and everybody from Casio and Canon to Fujifilm and Kodak has a similar product. Now Nikon is making its first foray into Ultracompactville with...
...there is no electricity and no running water indoors, and yet there's Sunsilk and Omo." 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 recently 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...
...There is no reason why this use doesn’t extend to people after college,” he said. “Peoples’ lives are different but there is still a basic informational need...