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...province in 2005. One bullet hit her neck and ripped an exit through her armpit, while a second drilled into her thigh. "All I could think was, 'If I die here, I die for the people,'" she recalls. But within weeks Lenlen had recovered-young flesh heals fast-and by December 2005 she had joined a weapons raid by 43 rebels on a police headquarters in nearby Loreto town that netted a dozen firearms and killed two policemen. Their deaths don't bother her. "They tried to fight back," she shrugs...
...partner, David Bernstein, also an experienced publishing hand, are betting that these bite-sized books are the perfect way to capture the best voices of the blogosphere in an easy-to-read format. Says Bellow: "Pamphlets are the ideal form for the needs of the intelligent reader in our fast-paced, media-saturated, ADD culture." The average TNP pamphlet averages 40 to 80 pages. Small enough to cart around easily (4x6 inches), they run $4 apiece on TNP's website...
...John Young, who writes the blog Cryptome.org, was also contacted by Wikileaks' organizers and asked to sit on its advisory board. He too declined their offer. "Their idea is a good one, but they're moving too fast without providing any evidence that they can pull this off," he says. Young gave Wikileaks a taste of its own medicine by leaking the organizers' e-mail exchanges with him on his own blog...
...providing supply-chain-management to big customers. TAL Apparel, which makes 1 out of every 7 dress shirts sold in the U.S. at its factories in Asia and North America, nimbly adjusts production for major customers like JCPenney based on weekly sales results. In a practice linked to the "fast fashion" trend, retailers can send orders to TAL each week. TAL then ships out the product in four days or less--emergency orders can be rushed through in a mere four hours. TAL sorts the goods into boxes for shipment to each individual retail store, rather than to a warehouse...
...billion in the past six years--equal to the entire economy of the Netherlands in 2000. Once moribund countries such as Argentina and Russia are doing much of the heavy lifting today. According to the World Bank, developing nations collectively grew about 7% last year--more than twice as fast as high-income countries. They now account for 49% of world economic output, up from...