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...center. Nothing like that exists in the Indian Ocean. The U.N.'s International Oceanographic Commission is now working on creating an independent regional warning system that it hopes to have installed by the end of 2006. But that may prove difficult. The system will be expensive to establish and maintain, and pledges from donor countries in the tsunami's aftermath have not materialized. India has balked at the idea of an open exchange of data, fearing that nuclear secrets could be revealed. Meanwhile, competition between Indonesia and Thailand to host the warning center has led to an impasse...
...confront his personal history in his work. In the strip Walkin' the Streets (2004), he shows himself strolling at night with his older brother, Charles, locked in intense mental exchange. Charles killed himself in 1995. Crumb has also drawn their addicted mother, who tried - and failed miserably - to maintain the facade of normal family life. "There's a strong confessional element," says the Whitechapel's Anthony Spira. "He's constantly confessing his sins, his deepest urges, desires, fantasies." Says Crumb's wife, "As he's gotten older, he's questioned his spiritual center, his self, more and more...
...projects--the Centrino--a set of chips specifically designed for wi-fi-enabled laptops. For wi-fi capability, all you really need is the Pentium M, the chip at the heart of Centrino, but Otellini wanted to sell a bundle of chips along with it that would help maintain a laptop's battery life (not to mention Intel's bottom line). Against the wishes of his engineers, Otellini held back the launch of Centrino until the full chip set was ready. The plan worked. Intel has sold more than $5 billion worth of Centrino chips around the world, helping...
...admitted to Miami Dade's honors program, students need either a minimum 3.7 high school grade-point average or 1800 on the new SAT (26 on the ACT), and they have to maintain a 3.5 GPA to stay in. More than half the 60 credits the students must complete have to be in challenging honors-level courses. Honors students are offered free courses in Europe or at top-flight schools like Smith College. In addition, some 90 four-year schools, including Smith and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have agreements with Miami Dade that, in some cases, guarantee...
...asking anybody to drop what they’re doing and throw stones at a federal building. I respect people’s indecision about what to do next, and I respect those who maintain some hope that everything will turn out just fine in the end. But for those who did something in the last two years to change this country’s leadership, for those who walked out of class or talked to voters or just attended a rally: remember what it felt like to know that you could change...