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...starting to take notice, though. Last month, after someone left a message identifying a schoolgirl and threatening to rape her, anonymous callers tipped off police, who immediately surrounded the girl's school in Ibaraki prefecture. Fortunately, this one turned out to be a sick prank. Most prefectures have high-tech departments dealing with Internet and related crimes. But it's difficult to catch the author of an anonymous message if the bulletin board is accessed through a public computer. "Sometimes all we can do is advise the callers about how to protect themselves," says Masao Tatsuzaki, life division officer...
...seen pearl harbor, make sure to do so when it opens at your local theater. Not because it's a great film, which (though I'm no movie critic) it isn't, but because after spending more than two hours watching a sappy love story bracket a burst of high-tech pyrotechnics, you can reflect on the deep grip that World War II continues to have on our imagination...
...Like Silicon Valley, Marseilles is proving high quality of life is conducive to industrial innovation and wealth creation," says Guy Guistini, managing director of the Provence Promotion agency, which leads Marseilles' drive to bring high-tech and other fast-growing businesses to the area. The effort is paying off. Last year Marseilles and its region led the nation in foreign investment for the first time - even outdistancing its traditional rival, the capital. "The habit of Paris luring the best companies and skilled workers out of the provinces is reversing," Guistini says...
...more modest means. It's also not certain that the wealth and jobs being created by the boom will benefit native Marseillais. There is still a labor shortage, even though unemployment remains at 17%. Despite the new training centers, many of these unskilled workers are unemployable in the high-tech sectors on which the city is basing its future. Marseillais could close ranks again should they feel left behind by their city's success - and that could bring back the old mentality that until recently only audacious migrants like Dalila Gherras were prepared to brave...
Only a year and a half ago, Rohith Ajjampur was teaching at a computer training school near Bangalore in India's high-tech heartland. Almost by accident, he saw a newspaper photo of a German computer executive wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, "Are you Indian?" Intrigued, he visited the company's website and saw that it was looking for programmers. Today Ajjampur, 25, is working at the Berlin Internet firm Datango - the company that advertised on the T-shirt. "I never expected this to happen," he says, gesturing to the surrounding high-rises of the East Berlin...