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...Electronics Association. Data goes farther and faster without needing as many cell towers. "The fewer transmitter towers you have to build, the cheaper the network is and the cheaper your rates will be," says Craig Settles of Successful.com, which tracks the wireless industry. The result: Customers should see more complex services for streaming video on the go (think YouTube while you walk) and location-based applications, which could point you to the nearest Starbucks wherever you happen...
Political insiders have complex diagrams and Machiavellian analyses to explain why the Italian ruling class is so ineffective. Anthropologists lecture about the national tendency toward fatalism; sociologists talk of a fractured polity riven by regional differences. Others point out the anomaly that the Roman Catholic Church's headquarters loom large in the nation's political capital...
...complex De Monfreid who steals the show, of course. His voice - shifting easily from waggishness to bristling sarcasm to weighty understatement - is so dynamic that it ultimately doesn't matter whether he is using it in the service of fact or fiction. De Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit...
...After a key centrist ally yanked support this week from the fragile center-left government, Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. By virtually any reckoning in Italy's complex political arithmetic, this should spell government crisis - and, it would seem, the final bell for the 68-year-old pol, who was resurrected after his last fall from power in Rome by becoming president of the European Commission in 1999. When asked by reporters "How's it going?" just before his address to the Italian Parliament on Tuesday, Prodi declared his faith in his own survival...
...problem is that no one can prove what complex chemistry of cause and effect, culture and calculation, explains the falling rates - and for people who have devoted their lives to this issue, there's no glory in achieving one's ends if the means are anathema. Pro-choice groups credit comprehensive sex education and access to contraception, strategies that social conservatives often resist. Pro-lifers credit campaigns to tighten laws controlling access to abortion and to warn women about abortion's risks - which the other side deplores...