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...more troops and a lot more nations that want to contribute resources. I will create zones of security [with] a much more rapid delivery of reconstruction development. Those not in the zones will be saying to the so-called Taliban and others, "Look at the roads, the construction, the micro power projects. You get out of our village, so we can get into the zone." Much of the fighting is a result of narco-lords paying either so-called Taliban or others to fight, which is why coordinating our efforts with the poppy-elimination program and alternative livelihoods is absolutely...
...future, as if the ominously burgeoning complexity and interconnectedness of contemporary reality demanded correspondingly fatter books to embrace them. Now, writers are more likely to immerse themselves in a single time and place, and at more portable lengths. The cosm has gone from macro- back down to micro...
...looking at the characters is that they don't have personalities. They're just a collection of various pathologies. Maybe having personalities is a sentimental way of looking at people. With the people I know in tech - and God knows I know enough of them - there is this micro-autistic thing that happens in that world. Obviously I hyperbolize it, but I think there's something to it. I'm not saying it's all of human personality, but I think it's certainly part of human personality...
Once the underdog in the microchip world to industry leader Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is enjoying a hard-won victory lap, thanks to its hot Opteron processors. A 70% jump over last year's first-quarter revenues has Dell turning its head; Google is already an AMD partner. Meanwhile, Intel sweats out every earnings call as some of its best customers defect. AMD's Hector Ruiz, CEO of the $6 billion chip company, spoke with TIME's COCO MASTERS about chip architecture, energy prices and doing battle with Intel...
...plethora of reform, development and exchange programs conducted by contractors and nonprofit organizations, many funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fall in between. USAID’s West Bank/Gaza budget of $225 million, which includes providing equipment for Palestinian schools, micro-finance loans for entrepreneurs, and rule-of-law forums for Palestinian judges, is being reassessed by the Bush administration with the intent of cutting off any aid that could benefit the Palestinian government...