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...Kindle sales are still strong. "Kindle has become the No. 1 best-selling item by both unit sales and dollars - not just in our electronics store but across all product categories on Amazon.com," Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos recently said. Amazon's profit soared 68%, to $199 million, for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. The book discounts could draw traffic to the site and tempt shoppers to pony up for the $259 Kindle. (See nine e-readers to gawk...
...candidate (out of a field of 41) had received 50% of the vote, the election would go to a second round between the two highest vote earners. An initial tally of the votes put Karzai at 54%, with Abdullah in second place at 28%, but after more than a million votes were thrown out due to irregularities, the results were recalibrated to 49% and 32%, respectively. (See a profile of Abdullah Abdullah...
...long wait for results, political accusations between parties and a prevailing sense of international intervention have bred cynicism. "In this climate, the turnout will be much lower in the second round. And has anybody decided what constitutes an acceptable turnout to give the government legitimacy? Only 5 million voted in the first round [out of 12 million to 16 million registered voters]. What if only 1 million votes are cast this time...
...National health authorities have been trying to contain the unusually virulent outbreak of the common disease since the first cases appeared around a week after the storm. They are distributing antibiotics to some 1.3 million people living in still-flooded areas in the capital and two nearby provinces. But last week, the country's top epidemologist sent out an "SOS" to the global health authorities. A medical mission from the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network was set to arrive in Manila today and Tuesday. WHO officials in Manila said the four-person team will...
...Ketsana dropped more rainfall on greater Manila's 14 million residents in a nine-hour deluge than in an average month of the country's rainy season from July to November. At the height of the storm, 80% of the capital was underwater. The rainfall was exceptional, but the severity of the flooding was intensified by the city's garbage-clogged drainage system, partly from the shanties of informal settlers living along waterways and decades of skewed urban planning...