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...REALITY CHECK: Greenspan, of course, has the luxury of living in the economists' world provided by the budget projections of Clinton's Office of Management and Budget, a world of consistent spending and political discipline. A world that does not exist in Washington. And lest the assembled senators start scouring Greenspan's bank statements for big checks marked "GWB," the Fed chairman closed his prepared remarks with a big fat disclaimer and smacked the ball back into the politicians' court...
This is the real motive behind the country's single-minded devotion to the Internet. Three years ago, games like Lineage didn't exist. Even if they had, nobody had access to the high-speed broadband pipes needed to load their complex graphics. But South Korea's government has been encouraging IT businesses like networking, software development, system integration, content business, B.-to-B. portal operations and database mining. It has slashed red tape for Internet start-ups and deregulated the telecom industry. Result: Internet-access rates in South Korea were dirt cheap just as the Net started to take...
...ability to store and retrieve such quantum information would be an important step toward developing quantum computers, which unlike normal computers, could use bits that can exist simultaneously as zero and one and would be immensely more powerful than purely digital computers...
...such bottom-of-the-barrel teams exist in every sport, be it due to any number of reasons, ranging from a lack of fan support to organizational mismanagement. (Montreal, for one, has no business hosting a baseball franchise. It is time for the league to move that team to Vegas or northern Virginia and move on.) But will a salary cap solve the problems of these teams? Well, how much has such a cap helped the Clippers in the NBA? Or the Bengals...
...government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government in Kinshasa has been an authority as distant as any colonial power. As a state in the modern sense, Congo may have long ago ceased to exist - if, indeed, it ever existed as a state in the modern sense...