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...industry in Asia is expected to grow by more than 14% this year to $15.5 billion. That's new business phone companies desperately need to offset declines in local and long-distance call revenues, which are under attack from competitors such as Internet-based telephony providers. Some of the fiercest rivals in this new field are cable firms like I Cable, which last week began offering a broadband-and-telephony package for a ridiculously cheap $13 a month...
...other way around. Hoffman, a principal scientist at the technology research firm Atmospheric & Environmental Research, in Lexington, Mass., forecasts a sunny future in which, say, stampeding typhoons could be safely corralled and driven back out to sea. The key to weather control, says Hoffman, is understanding that even the fiercest tempest is a delicate creature. And by exploiting the sensitivity of weather to tiny changes in the environment, Hoffman has successfully tamed two hurricanes, thus saving dozens of lives and billions of dollars in property--at least on a computer...
...field, yeah, he’s the nicest guy... On the field, he is the fiercest competitor out there, between him and Ryan [Fitzpatrick] they would brawl anybody out there.” -—Brian Edwards
Although Dartmouth has remained Harvard’s fiercest ECAC rival—with games often deciding the ECAC crown—this year there are a number of teams that could spoil the two powerhouses’ hopes...
...Spain, for the moment, is where the battle rages fiercest. The Socialist - led government will allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children; the Church has called on Spanish Catholics to fight the legislation. Javier Garcia, 40, who wants to marry his Brazilian partner, Mario Almeida, thinks the Church's opposition is wrongheaded. Both men are Roman Catholic. "Most Christians think homosexuals should be able to get married," he says. Indeed, polls show that some 60% of Spaniards support legalizing gay marriage, and around 250,000 couples are awaiting the new law, which will be debated in parliament in the next...