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...different situation from the one that confronted the U.S. military in Vietnam - the enemy has no regional or international backers to support and sustain its insurgency; the terrain and technological capability of the U.S. precludes any concentration of forces; as long as the rebellion remains confined to Sunnis its maximum political support base is no bigger than 15 percent of the population - it's the idea of U.S. troops confronting an enemy indistinguishable from an often hostile civilian population that gets alarm bells ringing. A report in London's Evening Standard last week contained disturbing accounts, from interviews with...
...Laotian authorities are handling the case of the detained journalists and their Hmong companions reflects the viciousness of the regime's hard-line, isolationist stance. Officials in Laos say Falise and Reynaud could face a charge of murder, which carries a maximum sentence of death and a minimum of 10 years in jail. (It's not known if U.S. citizen Mua will face the same charge.) So far, the response from the detained foreigners' governments has been muted. They may be banking on quiet diplomacy to free the trio. But in the long run, unless the international community is willing...
...unusual, this charge connects the case to something more than a single stock trade. "It's not just about Martha Stewart's personal fortune," says Robert Mintz of McCarter & English in Newark, N.J. "It's about manipulating the marketplace." The fraud charge also increases the potential prison time; the maximum sentence is 10 years, twice that of the other charges...
Gaidano still has that floppy, framed, in his office. The data have not been recovered. But this nightmarish experience, familiar to many, put Gaidano on the road to creating a very profitable company. Data-storage devices, he knew, were getting larger every year. While the maximum size of a disc drive in 1984 was 30 MB, today a 120-GB hard drive--that's 400 times as much storage--sells for less than $120. But the basic technology has changed little, so the amount of lost data swells each year. That's why Gaidano and partner Jay Hagan created DriveSavers...
...industrial producer of geothermal electricity until 1958, when New Zealand opened a steam power plant), it was the first to see its underground reserves begin depleting, after registering a significant drop in steam pressure output. A closer study revealed that underground liquid reserves had fallen by 30% from the maximum levels of the 1950s. "We began reaching the boundaries and had to confront the problem of sustainability for the first time," Cappetti explains...