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...little incentive to improve the software that runs on their phones. Like network TV in the 1980s, the U.S. mobile-phone system is dominated by a handful of established giants: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile control nearly 90% of the market. They have used that power to maintain tight control over their networks. In this so-called walled garden, when you sign up to use a carrier, you can use only the services they want you to use. Imagine if Seinfeld were available only on RCA televisions. Or if your broadband service let you use Hotmail...
Crushing Hamas may be a chimerical goal, but reforming it need not be, if the U.S., Israel and its allies can devise ways to work with the Islamists in areas of mutual interest. A senior Israeli intelligence officer says, "If Hamas wants to maintain a reasonable life in Gaza, with gas, electricity and food coming in, they'll have to deal with the 'Israeli devil' a hundred times a day." That kind of engagement holds at least as much potential for progress as the U.S. policy of weeding out extremists and dealing only with pliable, so-called moderates. Reaching...
...been difficult to maintain your objectivity as a journalist? -Dale Worsham, SAN ANTONIONo, I haven't lost my objectivity. I don't think I have become a more fearful person or even more suspicious. I just finished a series of profiles of women around the world--all with different issues--to show that in the world there are incredible individuals we should focus on. It is something that even al-Qaeda hasn't taken away from...
Your book detailed the horror that both you and your husband endured at the hands of fanatics. How do you maintain a semblance of hope for the future of our world in the face of such hatred and inhumanity? I admire your courage. -Shauna Rockson, Palo Alto, CaliforniaIt was an act of resistance. I was really determined to deny those people what they were trying to achieve. I couldn't save Danny, but I knew that if I lost hope, then they would achieve what they wanted...
...legacy of Daniel Pearl? -Jodi-Ann Lyons, Albany, New YorkI think it should be us. I think it should be Adam and I and what we are going to do in the world and how we are going to live our lives and how we are going to maintain the spirits of our family in the future...