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...intention of annexing any portion of the land which the security barrier puts between itself and the Green Line—the political boundary between Israel-proper and the West Bank. Israel has maintained that the barrier—96 percent of which is an easily movable chain link fence—is not a unilateral statement of final borders between it and a future Palestinian state. The fence is designed to include the maximal number of Israelis on one side and the maximal number of Palestinians on the other in order to maximize its effectiveness as a security device...
...speedometer. As part of a $125 million deal, IBM will next year start equipping tens of thousands of cars, commercial trucks and government autos with devices to alert drivers--and authorities--when vehicles are speeding. The technology, which includes a GPS and two-way communications link, is meant to stem the U.A.E.'s record of auto fatalities--38 a year per 100,000 citizens, which is more than twice that of the U.S. Privacy issues notwithstanding, with all that data government will, ostensibly, be able to better deal with congestion and plan new roads. Companies could eventually cash...
...real prize is not the Worthington site, but Joey Potter’s personal page, including her résumé, which contains her e-mail address, jpotter@capeside.net (apparently she didn’t have a Worthington address yet). Click on the link, and sure enough, an e-mail window opens...
...year, presents users with two search boxes: what and where. The results are drawn from the 2 million business listings held by Yell.com, the online version of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages, and augmented with detailed maps showing the precise location of the desired establishments. Follow a link and Google Local will even draw the route for you. Why would Yell, whose own site offers similar services, sell info to a competitor? "It's a benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John Salmon. Paying for more prominent listings, he says, gives companies "an additional shop...
...understand regression analysis, the procedure statisticians use to sort through data. And its authors knit in research by other scholars. Each chapter is an enlightening field trip, like the investigations into human nature in Malcolm Gladwell's books, The Tipping Point and Blink. But in Freakonomics, attempts to link the chapters together fall flat. There is no unifying theory here, which is a shame...