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Madonna's Ray Of Light, the official Windows XP launch song, is cued up. The conference rooms are waiting at 112 locations worldwide, from Beijing to the New York City hotel where Bill Gates will lead a pep rally. And Microsoft's well-oiled p.r. machine has even thought to haul out a new slogan, "Yes You Can"--reasoning that, in light of recent events, "Prepare to Fly" isn't quite right...
...stakes in this launch are even higher for computer and chip manufacturers and makers of peripherals that were reeling from a decline in PC sales even before Sept. 11 and that have seen buyers virtually disappear since then. A huge chunk of the battered tech sector is counting on XP for a new breath of life...
...Center from American Airlines Flight 11, nor could a missile defense system fight the anthrax attacks that have plagued the country in the past weeks. Given the events of the past weeks, it seems much more likely that terrorists or rogue states would smuggle a weapon into America than launch it at Washington atop a missile...
...Laden, and to accelerate the collapse of the Taliban regime by signaling to its fighters that the fundamentalist militia is unable to protect its territory from U.S. attack. By the array of forces it has assembled around Afghanistan, it is plain that the U.S. is not planning to launch a full-blown invasion, instead focusing on expanded special operations of the type seen around Kandahar over the weekend. The infantry, in any ground war against the Taliban, remain the troops of the opposition Northern Alliance...
...less than $100; skilled professionals like doctors scrape by on $15 a month. Now Uzbeks have reason to be increasingly worried: three days after the U.S. began its strikes on Afghanistan, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldash, announced that his fighters and the Taliban would launch a jihad against the "puppet government" of Uzbekistan. Says one Uzbek businessman: "Something had to be done about terrorism in Afghanistan. It is important for our security. But we can't do it alone. Now we have the United States with us. That is good...