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...regarded as a kindred spirit, had been a marginal figure in the Bush administration, Dr. Rice is widely known to have the President's ear and to speak for him. President Bush's trust and confidence in Rice give her a certain authority to speak on his behalf, in contrast to Powell whose authority was undermined in his first month on the job when President Bush publicly repudiated positions he'd articulated on North Korea. Rice's privileged relationship with the White House means that she'll take her access to the President's ear into...
...precarious. Launch costs for a new aircraft can be enormous, with little guarantee that the market will reward innovation. In December 2003, Boeing announced it would build the twin- engine, highly efficient 7E7 - its first new airplane in a decade and its designated aircraft of the future. In contrast to the A380, which is designed to fly lots of people to big hub airports, the smaller (around 220 passengers) 7E7 aims to fly longer distances and to more cities. The company estimates its launch costs at a massive $9 billion. But while Boeing predicted it would have 200 orders...
...become of intellectualism? Can the philosopher's rarefied habit of mind survive in the spotlight? The criticism is not entirely new; BHL's earlier works were widely denounced by late, great French intellectuals like Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Aron, who labeled his positions hyperbolic and rash. By contrast, Cohen laments, books like Who Killed Daniel Pearl? don't get a single bad review despite what he calls their unremarkable writing and problematic ethics. The reason, he argues, is that instead of breaking new intellectual ground, Lévy and his modern peers rework existing ideas to justify media-hyped...
...technology that could bring down plasma, SED takes the idea of conventional cathode-ray-tube televisions and miniaturizes it: instead of one big electron gun exciting all the phosphors on a screen in sequence, millions of little electrical nodes do the same thing simultaneously. The result is picture contrast and response time that outstrip plasma and LCD with a much lower power drain. Toshiba says that production costs over time could make SED TVs relatively affordable, but the first, a big-screen set scheduled for launch this year, will cost a wheelbarrow of cash filled to an as-yet-undisclosed...
...There is no major drama here," says Stephan Jooris of M?decins Sans Fronti?res in Rangoon, who estimates that about 90 Burmese were killed by the tsunami, in contrast to more than 5,000 dead in neighboring Thailand. "People think we're lying. I can't explain it, but it's the truth...