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...interest in using the technology for a priority package service. As for turning the lights out on the in-flight films and food fiascos that define modern air travel, Rausch says killing off killing time "would be fine with me." Bye-bye economy class syndrome?hello instant jet lag...
...Sharon's strategy has been to eliminate the lag time between a Palestinian attack and an Israeli retaliation; use tank shells, rockets and mortars in response to shooters; deploy helicopter gunships to selectively assassinate suspected militants; work behind the lines to capture enemy soldiers; and if necessary, seal off entire Palestinian neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches. And Sharon has instructed Peres to tell the Palestinians that all that there is to talk about is stopping the violence...
...hard-money limits was fought for by Republicans as a long-overdue inflation adjustment, if nothing else. McCain was willing to talk about it - he'd discussed a compromise along those lines with conservative Republican Don Nickles - but the limits hike was something of a dealbreaker for Democrats, who lag far behind the Republicans in raising that sort of cash. Compromise can wait - the amendment went down...
...prices, which brings euro-zone inflation up to a 2.6% annual rate, gives the E.C.B. plenty of reason to sit on its hands for a little longer. (The central bankers consider inflation above 2% unacceptable.) "They have a view that monetary policy will only affect the economy with a lag of nine to 18 months," says Julian Callow, an economist at Credit Suisse First Boston. "So they want to be very sure before they cut rates." The risk is that they've waited too long already. Merrill Lynch strategist Michael Hartnett is holding out hope for a rate cut this...
...access to a customized menu of news, sports and stock portfolios. Just say the word stocks, news or weather--or the word dial when you want to place a call--and the onboard computer fetches. Access is limited (you can't get AOL, for example), and there's a lag in news and sports scores, because they are first read into the system by real people. E-mail, on the other hand, is instantly "verbalized" using text-to-speech software that recites your mail in that eerie, intonation-free televoice. Phone charges range from 19[cents] to a buck...