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...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 of major undersea cables...
...unfavorable terms" to which Belarus finally agreed include prices only 5% less than Gazprom's initial demand, and more than double that which Belarus has paid since 2005. The country was also forced to sell 50% of its national gas pipeline operator Beltransgaz to the Russian gas company. The concessions will hurt. Lukashenko has propped up the Belarusan economy with Russian fuel and once was tipped to occupy the Kremlin himself. That seemed realistic as he cozied up to an ailing Boris Yeltsin. When Vladimir Putin took Russia's helm, Lukashenko's chances were dashed, and with them, one reason...
...interests of the U.S. military in Iraq, right now, demand not only that justice be done over the Haditha killings, but also that it be seen to be done - by Iraqis as well as by Americans. That may help explain the extensive indictment, announced Thursday at Camp Pendleton, California - four Marines charged with murder in the killing of 24 Iraqis, and another four officers charged with dereliction of duty for not relaying accurate information about the killings up the chain of command. The charges send a sharp message of zero tolerance for abuses of civilians to U.S. uniformed personnel...
...Beijing. But the fact that both parties are at the table suggests that neither has a good alternative to the search for a compromise: China, North Korea's key patron, has left Pyongyang in no doubt that its own economic interests and those of its most benign neighbors demand that it take the path toward denuclearization and easing tensions with the U.S. At the same time, with China and South Korea resolutely opposed to cranking up the sort of pressure that would hurt, and potentially topple, the regime, the U.S. has few policy alternatives beyond those already adopted...
Skyrocketing prices have left galleries and dealers scrambling to keep up with the demand. Sotheby's held its first sale of purely Chinese contemporary art in New York City only last March. A dozen or so foreign galleries from New York, London and Hong Kong have opened branches in Beijing and Shanghai in the past 19 months. Meanwhile, scores of local galleries have sprung...