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...collection, there may be a certain logic in getting out of the museum business first. The school may be hoping that if the Rose is transformed into something other than a museum - or just into something that doesn't call itself a museum -?it can circumvent the code of ethics that governs the sale of art by museums. No museum means no rules to observe, especially the most inconvenient one - that museums should not sell art from their permanent collections for any purpose other than to raise funds to purchase more art. By the guidelines of the several associations that...
...geekspeak, AIR is an application runtime - a small chunk of code you download for free that then becomes a platform upon which other applications can run. AIR is compatible with any Windows, Macintosh or Linux computer and has been downloaded 100 million times. "We're aiming for a consistent experience across all devices," says Lynch, touching the screen to launch an International Herald Tribune app. It looks identical to but somehow better than the paper version of that newspaper. It feels alive. "You can do anything you want with AIR. It's totally expressive," he says, with a gentle...
...small, automatic payments for whatever content was accessed. Instead, the Web got caught up in the ethos that information wants to be free. Others smarter than we were had avoided that trap. For example, when Bill Gates noticed in 1976 that hobbyists were freely sharing Altair BASIC, a code he and his colleagues had written, he sent an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club telling them to stop. "One thing you do is prevent good software from being written," he railed. "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing...
...standard. Finally, this wave of scandals is the most recent manifestation of an inefficiently complex and bloated tax system. According to the IRS, more than 60 percent of Americans use professional help to prepare their income-tax returns. A convoluted system of deductions, rules, and exceptions, the U.S. tax code takes more than 66,000 pages to explain. Chris Edwards, a director of fiscal policy at the Cato Institute, remarked that just complying with the current tax system costs the nation around 2 percent of its GDP. In light of these recent examples and as part of larger economic reforms...
...Hamas threat. The militants are able to lob dozens of crude, badly aimed rockets into southern Israel, but that may be the limit of their abilities. And Israeli officials are congratulating themselves on their tactics. "Hamas and [Lebanon's] Hizballah are worried that Israel has broken the DNA code of urban fighting," says reserve Brigadier General Shalom Harari, while cautioning that Hamas' military leaders are probably already at work planning ways to block the Israeli military's next assault if fighting in Gaza breaks out again, as it undoubtedly will...