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...When defending the merits of its strategy, baseball throws a different pitch. "It would take an awfully long time to grow to the value that being in 50 million homes is immediately going to provide," says DuPuy. "It makes sense from an economic standpoint, and plus, these companies are partners that will help grow the game, and at the end of the day, that's to everybody's benefit as well." Baseball's bet: in five years, it will have a 66% stake in a network worth $1 billion or more, instead of a 100% cut of a company worth...
...remove incompetent rulers at the ballot box, making street rallies to throw the bums out largely unnecessary. Of course, no electoral system is perfect: vote-buying in villages, for instance, plagues some Asian countries. But it is only by going through several electoral cycles that democracies can consolidate and grow...
...chorus of condemnation will grow with the proportions of the conflict: Israeli forces are massing tanks and 6,500 troops for a possible land assault into Gaza. In anticipation, Hamas fighters are believed to be preparing Iraq-style roadside bombs and suicide bombers. Judging by Israel's disastrous 2006 incursion into Lebanon, a ground offensive in Gaza could drag on for weeks. "It will be a war of attrition," a senior Israeli military officer predicted to TIME...
...Administration Agency for Radio, Television and Electronics Information, ostensibly to regulate Internet usage and monitor Vietnam's online users, which are predicted to increase from about 20 million today to 30 million by 2010. "Vietnam like China realizes the importance of the Internet if their economy is going to grow and they accept that the more people have broadband access, the better it is for the country," said Dietz. Although the new law prohibits bloggers from discussing politically sensitive subjects, it also states that the government officially encourages Internet use "in order to share and exchange information corresponding to Vietnamese...
Over the past four years, Nevada was growing jobs at two to six times the national rate. In the past decade, the state's population increased 50%, with new residents attracted by steady employment, no personal income tax and housing that seemed to grow ever more valuable (home prices increased 135% between 2000 and 2006, according to Standard & Poor's). "We thought we had decoupled from the national economy," says Schwer. Unlike the rest of country, Nevada hadn't had a downturn since the 1980s...