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...lowest rate anywhere in the world. That has left much of Africa reliant on satellites for its Web access. But they are costly to use and offer limited capacity. O3b - short for the "other 3 billion" around the world who are unable to tap into the Web - plans to deploy spacecraft more cheaply by orbiting them at lower altitudes than traditional satellites. That should also speed up connections...
...South Ossetia and another breakaway province, Abkhazia, and called for Russian forces to be withdrawn "to the lines held prior to the outbreak of hostilities." Until that happens, they said, the E.U. would postpone further negotiations on a new trade agreement between itself and Russia. They also committed to deploy as many as 200 civilian observers to monitor the imperfect cease-fire French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokered with Moscow a few days into the fighting...
...message of change, and she's about as far outside the Beltway as you can get. A child of the middle class with a friendly face and big hair, she is so affable that she once won Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. Her son is about to deploy to Iraq. She's an ice fisherman, a moose hunter, a small business owner and a lifetime NRA member. And she shelved her state's pork-laden Bridge to Nowhere that McCain has ridiculed on the trail...
...because people see through this desperate strategy. Since the Democratic primaries, Obama has clung to a belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind of agitprop that the Bush campaign ran in 2004 to defeat Kerry. McCain, though, seems determined to deploy the slime. Is America really going to let itself be swift-boated again? Leslie Castello, Jacksonville...
...hard-liner who in the past has always assumed the worst about Soviet intentions. Nitze, on the other hand, argued that the U.S. cannot afford to hope that the Soviets will in effect say ''uncle.'' Nitze stressed, as he has on earlier occasions, that the U.S. should not deploy SDI unless it is ''survivable.'' It cannot be so vulnerable that the Soviets would be tempted to shoot it down. And it must be ''cost-effective at the margin.'' This means that once SDI is deployed, it must not be cheaper for the Soviets to add new offensive weapons than...