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...That works fine for transferring modest data files, talking, texting, going online, and even watching video. But, the phone companies don't seem to think consumers and business users will be satisfied by the way their networks operate now. Their next generation of technology will be about ten times faster than the one in the market today. (Read "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...next generation of cellular service may be judged on more than how it functions. It may be much faster than the 3G networks that service handsets now. But that won't matter if customers are unwilling to upgrade their current service and get new subscription plans. At some point, old handsets for 3G won't work, and acquiring new cell phones will be an additional cost...
...Indeed, the only thing falling faster than Japanese industrial output is Aso's popularity, which according to a recent Nippon Television survey has sunk to a 9.7% approval rate, the worst for a Japanese Prime Minister since 2001. Even fellow LDP stalwart Junichiro Koizumi, the influential former Prime Minister, has publicly criticized Aso's blunders, calling them "appalling" and "laughable." Nakagawa's Yeltsin-like meltdown "is one more nail in Aso's coffin," says Robert Dujarric, director at Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. "It shows that he's incompetent and so is his administration...
...Industrialization" of Agriculture: Thanks to the growing rise of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, modern crops are being harvested faster than ever before. But quick and early harvests mean the produce has less time to absorb nutrients either from synthesis or the soil, and minerals like potassium (the "K" in N-P-K fertilizers) often interfere with a plant's ability to take up nutrients. Monoculture farming practices - another hallmark of the Big Ag industry - have also led to soil-mineral depletion, which, in turn, affects the nutrient content of crops...
...possible. It’s a counterfactual. 8.FM: Speaking of counterfactuals, what would the reception of the novel have been if it were released in 1764? JL: It’s just like every other [18th-century] novel. 9. FM: But earlier you said it was kind of faster paced. JL: It has to be somehow legible to a modern reader. It is quite overwrought, and it’s also quite campy, but it’s not nearly as overwrought and campy as that stuff. The novel was considered pernicious; it was a new form, considered debauched...