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Quaero, ergo sum: I search, therefore I am. That could be the new Internet mantra if an ambitious European Internet project lives up to its hype. The proposed search engine, a Franco-German joint public and private initiative, was trumpeted by French President Jacques Chirac as an attempt to "launch with our European partners the first genuinely multimedia search engine" to meet the "global challenge" issued by U.S.-based Google and Yahoo!. The project's chief selling point is said to be a revolutionary capability to search as well as translate audio and video sources. But details are scarce: Thomson...
...After focusing much of its energy over the past seven years on mature economies, it is locked in a global contest with its chief rival, Citigroup, to tap the pocketbooks of the world's newly rich. From South Korea to India to Brazil, HSBC is expanding its branch network, launching new financial products and marketing its brand. In December HSBC acquired 10% of Vietnam's Techcombank; in November HSBC said it planned to launch the first independent investment bank in Saudi Arabia; and in late October it purchased 70% of an investment bank called Dar Es Salaam...
Much of the administration’s financial plan depends on the success of FAS fundraising, and particularly on the timing of the University-wide capital campaign. The campaign has been in a “quiet phase” since 2004 but its public launch has likely been delayed until 2008 or beyond. Abell and professors on the committee said that while FAS is “ready” to mount its own fundraising campaign, it will only do so in concert with the rest of the University...
...launch was delayed for two days by high winds-first at Cape Canaveral, where they threated the Atlas V rocket, and then, improbably, by a storm that knocked out power to the control center in Maryland. But the New Horizons mission finally lifted off successfully on Thursday, en route to a 2015 encounter with Pluto...
...than 3 billion miles. Indeed, at a top speed of more than 47,000 m.p.h., which it will achieve by playing off Jupiter's gravity in a 2007 flyby, New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft in history (it's no slouch even now: a mere nine hours after launch, it will zip past the Moon; it took Apollo astronauts three days to get that...