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Moses Ma, founder and CEO of the e-commerce software start-up BusinessBots, thinks he has a better way. Sitting in BizBots' San Francisco office, he types in a polypropylene order on his JAM (Java Agent-Enabled Marketplace) prototype for the chemicals industry. A moment passes; then JAM matches Ma's buy order--price, purity, etc.--to a compatible sell order in its order book, and, boom, the deal closes. Phone calls: zero. Time: five minutes. Cost: maybe 10 bucks. "Theoretically," Ma says, smiling, "it makes sense to do everything this...
...here's to America, from sea to shining sea. The full-throated roar of the people exercising their right to free speech is a little deafening at times; democracy does require a considerable tolerance for diversity and some fondness for dissent. But if we liked everything in perfect order, we'd be Germans. Personally, I think the Founders were right all along, but that the results are a lot funnier than they intended. I move a vote of gratitude that we live in a nation where so much confusion is allowed. God bless Americans...
Blake is also the first player to leave the College early in order to play professional sports since 1992, when first-year Erika DeLone left to pursue a career on the women's tennis circuit
Blake is also the first player to leave the College early in order to play professional sports since 1992, when first-year Erika DeLone left to pursue a career on the women's tennis circuit...
...Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies may also be a power play by the KLA," says Anastasijevic. "That raises the question of whether the West will be willing to challenge a key player in the territory in order to save the Gypsies." Although NATO remains formally committed to protecting Kosovo?s minorities, the history of the Roma throughout Europe over the last five centuries will give the Kosovar Gypsies little cause for comfort...