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...mellowed with age. Age, memory and nostalgia are, however, the central themes of Queen Loana, Eco's fifth novel, just published in English translation. Struck by amnesia, the narrator, an antiquarian book dealer, begins to dig through the paper trail of his early life in an attempt to kick-start his memory. The novel itself is illustrated with images from comics and children's books that may or may not be clues to the narrator's sequestered identity. For Eco, of course, everything is a potential clue or sign. A professor at the University of Bologna, he continues to develop...
...develop a low-cost cell phone with battery life as long as 500 hours (for villagers without regular electricity) and an extra-loud volume for use in noisy markets. The poor need innovative models of financing too. When cement supplier Cemex, based in Monterrey, Mexico, was looking to kick-start sales after Mexico's mid-1990s financial crisis, it founded Patrimonio Hoy, a combination builder's "club" and financing plan that targets homeowners who make less than $5 a day. It recruited 510 promoters to persuade new customers to commit to building additions to their homes. The customers paid Cemex...
...program will kick-start a broader effort, called “News21,” to establish on-campus centers—or “incubators”—where students will spend their summers producing news reports that will be distributed to media outlets...
...reasons: to feel less or to feel more. Some kids suffering from such problems as anxiety, depression or borderline-personality disorder--a condition characterized by explosiveness and unstable relationships--find their pain so overwhelming that they simply shut off their emotional spigot. Cutting, they find, is a way to kick-start feelings when the numbness becomes worse than the pain. Other kids say the opposite--that their emotional turmoil is so great that they need something to serve as a bleed valve to calm them down in times of crisis. "I would do it when things got me upset," says...
...permissible under the NPT, in order to facilitate rapid conversion to a bomb program should this option be chosen. But it's no simple split between hard-liners and reformers: Even the conservative clerics led by Ayatollah Ali Khameini want relations with the West, particularly trade and investment to kick-start their decrepit economy. They've actually taken charge of the nuclear negotiations with the Europeans - an encouraging development, given the fact that they hold the levers of power. They're willing to talk, but their rhetoric of self-sufficiency suggests won't easily accept a deal that leaves them...