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...fight rising racial tension? And why do many second-generation Muslim Belgians still not feel at home? The situation is especially dire in Antwerp, where unemployment in many immigrant communities hovers around 30%. Under the slogan "Our People First," the far-right Vlaams Blok (Flemish Bloc) garnered one-third of the vote in the last municipal elections in October 2000. Abou Jahjah gives Belgium's Muslims a radical voice to counter the Blok. He showed up at the scene of Achrak's murder barely 30 minutes after the crime; what happened next is in dispute. Abou Jahjah claims he tried...
...despite the global recession, Beretta Holding reports a 15% increase in sales of such "premium grade" guns. The company earns most of its profits from mass-produced weapons such as military handguns, but its annual premium-grade sales of $30 million represent 8% of its revenues and more than one-third of that worldwide market. (Beretta doesn't disclose how many guns it sells...
...needed. "A must-have application could pop up at any time," says K.Y. Ng, a stock analyst at securities firm Nomura. "But there isn't one out there right now." Other than live videoconferencing calls, in fact, there's really nothing you can do on 3G phones that you can't do on 2.5G phones, and those have not exactly been runaway commercial successes. (Indeed, consulting firm Analysys estimates that only one-third of people with 2.5G phones actually use data services.) William Clark, a research director at technology consulting firm Gartner, acknowledges that videoconferencing is a mindblower...
...that snaps taken with a $500 digital camera often aren't as sharp as those from a $20 disposable? Because unlike the light-sensitive chemicals in ordinary analog film, each sensor on a digital chip saves only one-third of the color data it receives--either red, green or blue, but not all three at once. With the new Foveon X3 technology, however, three sensors are stacked on top of one another, so that each pixel absorbs the full color spectrum. Result: a 3.5-megapixel camera using Foveon technology will produce images as clear as today's 7 MP models...
HOLD YOUR NOSE Garlic is supposed to ward off a wide range of ailments from heart disease to infections. Researchers may be able to add one more: prostate cancer. Men in China who reported eating at least one-third of an ounce a day from the allium food group (which also includes onions, shallots and leeks) cut their risk of developing the cancer in half...