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...percent above the national average, and 70 Fortune 500 companies maintain manufacturing operations in the Magnolia State. Forbes magazine recently ranked the Gulf Coast and Jackson as two of the best places to do business in America. The state will provide the central hub of the NAFTA railway corridor, and its first-rate port facilities on three commercial waterways offers economical and efficient access to national and international markets. Mississippi's economic development is based on more than simply gambling and Worldcom. The University of Mississippi may be best remembered for the battle over James Meredith's admission...
...start buying computers again? It's doubtful. Tablets are too heavy and unwieldy to be used comfortably as notepads all day long. Not that you could. The TravelNote has a four-hour battery. That's fine for the class of potential business users of tablet PCs that Microsoft calls corridor warriors, Dilberts schlepping their tablets from meeting to meeting. But those of us who go on the road need to know our notepad isn't going to conk out after less than half a day away from an electrical outlet...
...alone. Gelayev and some 300 men reportedly slipped out of the valley over a month ago and are now probably on the Georgian-Chechen border, waiting either for a chance to slip across or, as Georgian security officials maintain, negotiating with corrupt Russian army commanders to buy a safe corridor into Chechnya. Marsho is Mazayev's first feature film. Since leaving Grozny six years ago, he has had little contact with his family, but says that his elder brother is slowly recovering from his time in one of the Russian "filtration camps" - brutal improvised prisons where, human rights groups...
...Later, in the corridor of the People's Study House, I saw housewife Nishimura reflecting on an exhibition of black-and-white pictures of Japanese atrocities. She looked discouraged, overwhelmed by the unrelenting guilt trip. "I really wonder when North Korea and Japan can build friendly relations," she finally said. "They feel so strongly that this is unforgivable. It makes the gap so hard to bridge...
...museum's roof to catch the sun. In his Los Angeles church, light is filtered through windows made of thin sheets of semitransparent alabaster. When the light falls across the great central space and careens around the angled walls, it provides exactly the great climax that his long, hushed corridor promised...