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...kind of Islamism does exist in Minneapolis: some Somalis demonstrated there recently in support of the brief Islamist takeover of their homeland. But Rasheed Garaad, 29, whom I talked to as he waited to join a terminal cab line, didn't connect his pickup policy with a desire to change this country...
Seated in a nondescript office in Hong Kong, 1,500 workers are turning the wheels of the global economy. Without leaving their desks, these merchandisers at Hong Kong--based trading outfit Li & Fung connect the far-flung dots of today's international manufacturing system. They make sure that Victoria's Secret gets its bras, American Eagle Outfitters its T shirts and Disney its stuffed Winnie the Poohs. One moment, workers in Hong Kong are haggling with fabricmakers for the best price of denim, and the next, they're ensuring that a shipment of teddy bears gets to U.S. stores...
Seated in cubicles in a nondescript office in Hong Kong, 1,500 workers are turning the wheels of the global economy. Employing e-mail and the telephone, these merchandisers at Hong Kong-based trading outfit Li & Fung connect the far-flung dots of today's international manufacturing system. Without leaving their desks, they make sure that Victoria's Secret gets its bras, American Eagle Outfitters its T shirts, and Disney its stuffed Winnie the Poohs. One moment, the workers in Hong Kong are haggling over the phone with fabricmakers for the best price on denim; the next, they're ensuring...
...crackdown on bandwidth hogs began after Computer Services announced in September that it had received repeated complaints from students who couldn’t connect wirelessly from their dorms...
...Internet as it exists today is far from shockproof. It has been built by independent consortia of private telecom companies and investors, and network design has been driven by economics. Reliability is important, of course, but intercontinental cable systems can cost billions of dollars, so they tend to connect to countries where demand is greatest and they often lack costly parallel backup circuits that would be underused most of the time. Vulnerabilities exist, and the recent quake found a chink in the armor. It struck in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan, an area that has an unusual concentration...