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...shoppers in Paris aren't the only ones suffering from sticker shock. The dollar fell to a near-record low of $1.33 to the euro at the end of last week. It has shed about six cents since early November, shattering months of calm on currency markets, causing a mini-swoon on some stock exchanges and prompting French Finance Minister Thierry Breton to call for "great collective vigilance." The dollar has also slid against the British pound, which closed last week just a few cents short of $2, its highest in 14 years. Many investors are betting that the decline...
Ultimately, the company wants to put its optics into ordinary prescription glasses. Unlike other attempts at video goggles, many of which look like mini-VCRs strapped onto a viewer's head, MicroOptical's are light and feature a see-through front panel so you can look ahead when you're not watching your YouTube downloads. But until the gear stops drawing stares from passersby, even that won't be enough. It's still tough bringing sci-fi to the streets...
...players in Lebanon may find outside backers. The Christians could again find support from the Israelis; and the Saudis, who are alarmed at the growing Shi'ite influence in Lebanon through Hizballah, may find Sunni militias to bankroll. Sunni jihadists may also join the fray, turning Lebanon into a mini-Iraq. Lebanese intelligence recently broke up a ring of 200 Syrian-backed Islamists holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp who had a hit list of 36 Lebanese politicians...
...often than not, our gripes ring hollow. The truth of the matter is, most of us don’t value our own or others’ privacy as much as we claim to. With PerezHilton.com getting millions of hits per day and the quick death of the facebook.com Mini-feed uproar, the proof is in the pudding...
...magazine. For starters, perhaps we, the not-so-famous, could focus more attention on living and doing things in real life, rather than posting our musings on ourselves and our “lives” in a note and hoping everyone reads it when it shows up on mini-feed. After all, as one of my favorite sayings goes, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” See, look at that! Aren’t I deep...