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...other paper transactions. And the government has done its best to boost computer literacy, including running free two-day classes that have been attended by 100,000 people. It now issues national ID cards with a computer chip that contains the owner's digital signature. That enables Estonians to gain access to an ever growing range of electronic services, by networked computers and even mobile phones. Sitting in an Irish bar in Tartu, Jagomägi flicks at his phone and accesses the information provided by the school attended by his younger son Vootele, 10. It lists Vootele's schedule...
...page first issue was sent out free of charge to 50,000 alumni on Monday and was celebrated with a launch party at New York City’s Core Club. Financed by David Bradley of Atlantic Media Co., which publishes The Atlantic Monthly, 02138 hopes to gain the favor of the 320,000 graduates of Harvard University. The magazine was founded by Bom Kim ’00, who now serves as its president, and Dan Loss ’00. Kim and Loss could not be reached for comment yesterday. As undergraduates, Kim and Loss founded Current...
...that includes many of the voters of President Mahmoud Abbas's own Fatah party. In part, as Israeli commentator Danny Rubinstein notes, that reflects a widely held belief among Palestinians that "Yasser Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement and what did they gain from that? Only suffering and misfortune." In fact, as Rubinstein notes, the settler population in the West Bank actually doubled during the Oslo years...
...dealt with what we astronomers really do rather than the mere semantic debate over whether Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet. Michael Lemonick wonderfully conveyed the feel of using a big telescope and showed how astronomers work together, observing in different parts of the spectrum to gain a complete picture of that early stage of our universe. Jay M. Pasachoff Director, Hopkins Observatory Williams College Williamstown, Massachusetts...
...government in Honiara soon. Sogavare has come to power twice in the wake of violence: following a coup in 2000, and after last April's riots. While some of his government's moves seem erratic, the guiding purpose is clear. Under the slogan of "sovereignty," Sogavare is trying to gain control of donor funds and dominate the bureaucracy again. In New York last week to attend the gathering of the U.N. General Assembly, Honiara's delegation sought out friends and did some business: it announced a new health initiative with Cuba, did some lobbying for Taiwan, and found new personnel...