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...Having grown up in the fiercely nationalistic Ukraine and served in its parliament, Polyakov said he places 90 percent of the blame on Russia and 10 percent on Georgia...
...everyone else seeking the highest office - perhaps more so, given his race, his name and his lack of experience. But he has not been childishly egomaniacal, in contrast to our recent baby-boomer Presidents - or petulant, in contrast to his opponent. He does not seem needy. He seems a grown-up, in a nation that badly needs some adult supervision...
...power than the previous generation of chips - just 18 months old. Dell itself has rolled out a new desktop that is up to 70% more efficient than the average PC - an attractive quality for server farms, the computer banks that make up the backbone of the Internet, which have grown increasingly energy hungry in recent years. Reducing energy consumption does a lot for carbon emissions - but even more for the balance sheets of IT companies. "The total cost of powering a server over its lifetime is beginning to outpace the cost of the computer itself," says Arbogast. "Customers are going...
Trickle-Down Gluttony Kudos to Nancy Gibbs on her essay [Oct. 13]. As an early baby boomer, I was raised on the stories of thrift and sacrifice that came from my parents, who had grown up during the Depression and World War II. When George W. Bush suggested that the way to be patriotic after 9/11 was to go shopping, I was appalled. We have seen that message repeated over and over - including two incentive checks from our government so we could spend even more money we didn't really have. So excuse me if I have a hard time...
...ballot-box battles can be dispiriting for gays, who have otherwise grown used to hailing spectacular victories in the courts. Three state supreme courts - in Massachusetts, California and, just last week, Connecticut - have ruled that gays have the fundamental right to marry. Those courts have ruled that not even civil unions with all the legal trimmings of marriage can compensate. Gay-rights activists hope that Iowa's high court, will hear arguments in December and then rule as soon as January 2009 on a lower court's decision in favor of gay marriage, will bring judicial victories in state high...