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...Someone in Jakarta can take classes at UC Berkley," Halberg said...
...Democrats, most of it scattered quietly to state parties. The same year, Lippo provided an additional $50,000 to the national party. The money was sent in by a U.S. subsidiary controlled by Huang and identified as a political gift in his expense report to Lippo headquarters in Jakarta. That payment drew the first unequivocal link between a Democratic Party contribution and a foreign source...
...market nearly unnoticed. For instance, Homegate, an Internet connection service that quietly launched last week in 760 cities around the globe. Homegate's new software lets travelers connect their PCs to the Net from anywhere with a local phone call. An executive from Anchorage can jack in from Jakarta for about 10[cents] a minute, instead of the $20 a minute it would cost to dial Alaska...
...eyes on a bigger prize: telephone service. As it gets easier to make phone calls over the Internet (something Schwob expects within the next 12 months), Homegate will become a realistic alternative to long-distance phone service. That Alaskan businessman will be able to connect to the Jakarta Net gateway and "call up" any number around the world at the 10[cents] a minute rate. A laptop and a modem will allow anyone to bypass the expensive (and difficult) international phone system, offering millions in savings. Homegate has already signed up one corporate customer for 25,000 copies...
...have enough mass to squeeze out underlying seawater, which makes them inherently unstable. Should this ice sheet collapse or float free, as other marine ice sheets have done, global sea level would rise nearly 20 ft., which would inundate most of Florida and hundreds of low-lying cities from Jakarta to London...