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...browser. But these are all innovations on the software end; this latest plan goes after the networks themselves. The U.S. is ranked 12th in the world in broadband speed and 15th in the world for broadband penetration. Not bad numbers, but U.S. providers are only now working on the next generation of broadband access, limited to 100 Mbps. By contrast, South Korea plans to give access to 1-Gbps connections countrywide by 2012 as part of a $24.6 billion plan to upgrade the country's infrastructure. The Federal Communications Commission will submit its own U.S. broadband plan in March...
TERC is likely only one of several genes that influence telomere length, says Tim Spector of Kings College London, who co-led the study. "Our next step will be to use whole genome sequencing to expand our search from 500,000 to 50 million [genetic] markers. TERC is almost certainly only the first piece of the genetic puzzle," he says...
...saying he feared repercussion from the authorities if he gave his real name. "They tell us the state is broken. There is no money for health, for pensions, for education. On the other hand, we see people building big houses with swimming pools." (Read: "Why Greece Could Be the Next Dubai...
...Monetary Fund (IMF) - or even get booted out of the E.U. altogether. "If any other country was making the kinds of adjustments that we are, it would be applauded," says Papaconstantinou. "In our case, they are not sure we are actually doing it." (Read: "Why Greece Could Be the Next Dubai...
...investor and economist, Timos Mellisaris, who calls Greece's public sector "the last communist frontier." Greeks like to point out that the state started to put on serious weight in the early 1980s when the current Prime Minister's father Andreas, who would dominate Greek politics for the next 15 years, first swept into office. "The state has an irrational control of the economy," says Yannis Stournaras, director of research for the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research, a nonprofit, independent think tank. "We need nothing less than a revolution in the public sector...