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...business laptops were Wi-Fi enabled. By 2005, analysts believe, that number will be more like 95%. Apple started things rolling in 1999 with its Wi-Fi system, known as AirPort, and in January unveiled a speedier upgrade called AirPort Extreme. Last month, in a bid to boost demand for laptops (and Intel processor chips), Intel released Centrino, a mobile technology that features a new microchip and a built-in Wi-Fi receiver...
...hanging loose,” the Right took control. Gitlin saves his harshest admonishments for the right wing conservatives who occupy the highest echelons of power (and did so, says Gitlin, before George W. Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court) and the Naderites who helped boost the current administration...
...White House hopes the latest bad economic news--a surge in jobless claims and more indications of businesses cutting back--will give a boost to Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal, which the Senate voted to slice in half two weeks ago. Asked if the President still hoped to get his tax cut passed in full, a senior Administration official replied confidently, "Fifty miles to Baghdad." Translation: After the war, the chances could improve. In private, though, Administration officials say they will take the largest number they can get and declare victory. As a Bush aide points out with...
Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: bookings for the Easter holidays are down 30%. The rugby games helped those numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take a week--the SARS incubation period--before doctors will know whether there's a price to pay for it. --By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong
Michigan’s undergraduate admissions decisions are based on a point system, in which minority students are given a 20 point boost. The law school’s policy more closely resembles that of Harvard College, which says only that race is considered as a factor in admissions...