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...officer was dispatched to Au Bon Pain to take a report of an unarmed robbery. The reporting party stated that while they were outside three unknown individuals approached them and made bias related comments and then attempted to steal their laptop and book bag. The reporting party stated that they grabbed their laptop and book bag and made their way inside the building. The reporting party stated that the three individuals then fled the area...
...delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer--a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century...
...ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch and a knack for fund raising. With the support of the U.N., his so-called $100 laptop quickly found backing from, among others, Google, Red Hat, Advanced Micro Devices and Nortel. His team is still making prototypes, but a finished motherboard was delivered in April. A wind-up crank has been replaced by a new foot pedal to supply power in areas lacking electricity...
...actual decision to make millions of laptops will happen sometime in December or January," he says, predicting that finished machines could be ready by next spring. He hopes to start in seven countries--Nigeria, India, China, Thailand, Brazil, Argentina and Egypt--with a combined total of at least 5 million orders. For the first year or so, however, the $100 laptop will probably cost...
...stood in line at the security check point, dutifully stripping myself of belt and shoes and responsibly removing my laptop from its case, I resigned myself to my fate. A hidden metal button on the hip of my jeans caused the security guards to charge me down with batons in hand, while simultaneously the miniscule tube of chapstick from the very bottom of my rather large backpack got confiscated for being a potential bomb. I decided that the day had already gone so wrong that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. The flight would be fine...