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Though Barnes spent over half of his life at Harvard, he never took himself too seriously, according to his widow and former student, Julie C. Wang, 62, who used to head her own medical public relations firm...
Journalists covering the Afghan war rely heavily on coalition forces to gain access to a hardscrabble backcountry populated by Taliban militants. So the reaction was far from muted when the news broke last week that the Defense Department was paying a controversial private firm to profile reporters seeking to accompany - or "embed" - with troops. Reporters quickly complained that it was tantamount to building a blacklist and that the U.S. military was deliberately working to sideline journalists critical of its mission...
...population grows wealthier, China should become a more important part of Apple's sales. Once the iPhone is released on the mainland, it could occupy as much as 5% to 6% of Apple's global sales, says Zhang Jun, a Beijing-based analyst with the research firm Wedge MKI. Zhang believes that in the near future, China could make up as much as 10% of the world's iPhone market, which has reached 26 million units in the past two years. "It will add a lot of sales," he says...
...Ridge, who now works at his own consulting firm, Ridge Global, writes in his book, with co-author Lary Bloom, that he finally decided to pen a political memoir because "I thought my fellow citizens and public officials needed to know about what happened, what ought to have happened, and what we must do in the future to secure America and to raise the issue of security well above politics." It is an ambitious task for a 280-page book, but Ridge seems to touch on all of the highlights - the bureaucratic turf battles, the political pressures, the massive challenge...
...asked by TIME about the possibility that the Arctic Sea was carrying a secret cargo, Vladimir Voronov, deputy head of Oy Solchart Management - the Helsinki-based, Russian-run company that operates the ship - replied, "I don't know anything about a secret cargo. We're just a simple shipping firm, and from what we understand, our ship was hijacked...