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...very odd coup," the BBC dubbed it in a headline that certainly seemed to capture the quirkiness of the ongoing putsch on the tranquil South Pacific island of Fiji. But taking the prime minister hostage appears to be becoming less odd and more par for the course in some of Britain's former Pacific island colonies. With no end to the Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself...
...behind an emerging digital network standard known as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), a gamble that has paid off handsomely. Today GSM rules more than half the wireless world, and Nokia's sales of GSM phones account for most of its 30% global market share. Nokia's big coup came in 1998 when it surpassed Motorola. This year's first-quarter earnings beat the most optimistic projection, whereas both Motorola and Ericsson remain in recovery mode. "It would take a moon shot to make a dent in Nokia's position," says Dataquest's Bryan Prohm...
...Chileans went to the polls during his 18-month absence and returned to power the same Socialist party Pinochet had overthrown in his 1973 coup, and despite the moderation of new president Ricardo Lagos, who was briefly jailed under the dictatorship, his government is quite happy to see Pinochet on the defensive. "For the most part this is simply going through the motions of stripping Pinochet of his immunity and of his glory in order to correct the historical record," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Given his rapidly declining health he's unlikely ever to make...
...global-affairs questions were handled by World editor Joshua Cooper Ramo, who scored a coup by getting General Wesley Clark to write about the future of warfare. Washington correspondent Mark Thompson, with help from Ed Gabel and Missy Adams, describes what the soldier of 2025 will be wearing (and wait until you hear about rations). For those who think that peace in the Middle East will end the region's turmoil, Robin Wright has a more complicated story to tell. Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, offers a surprising answer to his question, "Will Socialism Make a Comeback...
...DoubleTwist's coup shows that the genome project could generate profits even before it's finished, the mapping of chromosome 21 illustrates the converse: completion of the project won't mean scientists understand genetic diseases...