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Laying his nets under the night sky, Brando Cervantes often gazed across the waters at the golden lights of the exclusive Dos Palmas resort. What would it be like to spend time there, a fisherman among the rich and the foreign, playing tennis, taking a jacuzzi, sipping cocktails? At 4 a.m. on May 27, Cervantes was checking his nets with helper Alvics Cabilo, 21, when over the horizon came the throbbing of huge horsepower, more powerful than anything normally found in the waters off the Philippines' rugged western Palawan province. The speedboat had no lights; only when it pulled alongside...
...Sayyaf, cemented in 1995 when the group massacred 53 civilians in a two-hour rampage in the southern town of Ipil, it is far from being a disciplined precision force. Cervantes, the fisherman, says the guerrillas were way off course when they spotted his lights. "They kept asking where Dos Palmas was," he says. The sky was getting light when they finally arrived at 5 a.m. on tiny Arreceffi island. Disarming the security guards, the gunmen went straight for the cabanas on stilts over the water, which go for $720 per couple for two nights. They kicked down the doors...
What's going on in Taejon, at the Korea Research Institute, is a very basic example of what could be the most interactive technology of the future: brain-computer interfaces. Early computers were controlled by cardboard punch cards; the first PCs demanded typed DOS commands; the mouse gave us a graphic interface. Will we one day be able to enter the world of computing with no external mechanical intermediary whatsoever - in other words, just by thinking? Researchers around the globe are working on the problem. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, for example, has developed the Adaptive Brain...
...landline was available. And if voice services are skimming the edge of adequacy, that's still more than anyone could say of the "mobile Internet." Even the biggest boosters of wap-based online services compare their current offerings to such famously user-unfriendly products as dos. Telecom operators need to carry more voice and data traffic more reliably just to continue growing and to keep their promises to the stock market. But right now there's just not enough room on the airwaves...
Besides suppressing one's will to power, there are other dos and don'ts for would-be Pontiffs. The addition of 11 Cardinals from Latin America, where half the world's Roman Catholics now reside, suggests that it's important to speak Spanish. The sheer number of Cardinals--most of whom see one another only rarely--would seem to favor talented networkers. Being in shape is a plus. The 33-day reign of John Paul I underlined the need for papal stamina, which may be one reason that Castrillion Hoyos rides an Exercycle. A moderate public image can't hurt...