Word: breakthroughs
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...solve the Bali massacre, the police could certainly do with some help. They are desperate for a breakthrough. The investigators are still a long way from naming a suspect, establishing a motive or connecting the deadly strike to jihadis. "Our net is still cast very wide," says Major General I. Made Mangku Pastika, the Balinese-born police chief appointed by Jakarta to head the investigation. General Pastika occupies one of the hottest seats in Indonesia. Getting some solid arrests?none have been made so far?will reassure the international community that President Megawati Sukarnoputri is serious about the need...
...appeared to be escalating. When Pakistan tested its Shaheen missile system (capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the Indian capital of New Delhi) India retorted with its own provocative rocket launch within hours. Surprisingly, however, such brinkmanship may have spooked both nations enough to force a breakthrough in relations. When New Delhi announced on Wednesday that it was pulling back some of its 500,000 troops posted along its border with Pakistan, Islamabad said it would follow suit, and everyone concerned about potential nuclear holocaust in South Asia exhaled...
...house, but Ramsay wants to be in the cineplex, too. "I also want to make films people want to go and see," she says. "I don't see myself as being élitist in any respect." Ramsay isn't waiting around to see whether Morvern Caller will be her breakthrough movie; she's already writing an adaptation of Alice Sebold's runaway best-seller The Lovely Bones, which is due to begin shooting next summer. She remains unperturbed by the recent collapse of the production house that commissioned her for the job. It's just another extraordinary situation, calling...
...should have known that Google would get it right. The company is among the few shining stars in an industry littered with flameouts. Before Google came along in 1998 with its breakthrough search engine, trying to search for stuff on the Web was an exercise in information overload. Google's innovation was an algorithm (afancy comp-sci term for a set of rules) that matched search terms with the most relevant sites that get most links from the highest quality Web pages. Think of it as searching by dint of popular demand...
...Omar's disappointment, however, was probably the best news out of the embattled region in ages?and a possible breakthrough in the Kashmir Gordian knot. Kashmiris embraced the democratic process as a means of somehow going forward: turnout was 44%, compared to the pointedly apathetic participation in 1996 elections. They trusted India's vow that the polls wouldn't be rigged (as they have been in the past) and India came through. That's an amazing show of mutual good faith following 13 years of anti-Indian militancy and more than 36,000 lives lost. Militant groups attacked polling stations...