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Tsuda, 58, joined phone giant NTT in 1970 as an engineer and 20 years later helped establish the mobile-phone project that grew into the independent company NTT DoCoMo (though NTT retains a 63% stake). During Tsuda's tenure as executive manager of corporate strategy, NTT DoCoMo launched its biggest hit to date, an e-mail and Internet service for mobile phones called i-mode, which has helped the company dominate Japan's mobile-phone market...
...which he wrote with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten, is obviously in part an autobiographical film. The director of My Left Foot, among other excellent movies, was a fairly recent (1981) immigrant to the U.S., had a brother whose early death shaped his sensibility and of course struggled to establish himself in a new land...
Although NATO has finally decided to send additional soldiers to establish what it calls "islands" of stability outside the capital, its 19 member nations have managed to scrape together only 200 extra troops for the task--all from Norway. Afghan security officials expected 3,000. Of the troops already in Afghanistan--from Canada, Britain, Germany and many other countries--few can be spared from their current duties. Roughly 8,500 U.S. soldiers are busy hunting down the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and some 5,300 NATO troops are required for security in Kabul. That is because 30,000 unruly, battle...
...volunteer. Others just cart their children along, as did Barbara and Ed Dunsworth, 50 and 55, when they moved from Nova Scotia (where Ed had practiced law) to take a position in South America with Habitat for Humanity. The family lives in Buenos Aires, where the Dunsworths are helping establish a Habitat branch...
...DIED. EUGENE KLEINER, 80, engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer whose venture-capital firm helped establish Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Amazon.com; in Los Altos Hills, California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years later, he helped establish the venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which gave seed money to more than 300 companies, including many tech powerhouses...