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...Cook will take over the day-to-day responsibilities of running the company. If you trust the release from Apple, Steve Jobs will remain involved in major strategic decisions while he is out. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
...Apple employees asserting that "during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought." Jobs asked COO Tim Cook to take over Apple's day-to-day operations while he recuperated, but added that he planned to "remain involved in major strategic decisions...
...Huang has mined never-before-researched financial records on rural China to bolster his thesis that the major gains in overall income growth and entrepreneurial activity were made in the 1980s. Interestingly, this happened without massive infrastructure: at the time, China lagged behind India in terms of paved roads and railways...
...asked to have a cease-fire with Hamas is like asking you to have a cease-fire with al-Qaeda" - despite the fact that Israel and Hamas had, in fact, agreed via Egypt to a six-month cease-fire just last June. And Israeli military spokeswoman Major Avital Leibovitch is constantly reassuring TV audiences worldwide that Israeli troops are going the extra mile to avoid collateral damage in Gaza. However, some Israeli officers speak more bluntly when their audience is domestic. ("We are very violent," the commander of the Israeli army's élite combat engineering unit, Yahalom, told...
Other Palestinian sources say that Hamas delegates were warned by the Egyptians that unless they agreed to a truce, Israel would launch a major ground assault into Gaza City, one of the most crowded places on earth, which risks raising the death toll far higher. Palestinian medical sources say that more than 300 children have died in the Gaza fighting. (See pictures of the heartbreak in the Middle East...