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After the dotcom crash, the appetite for technological upheaval is slim. And that's just as well: most really big technologies, from the railroad to electricity, have made their impact gradually. "I don't think you ever sell a big paradigm shift," Meyer says. "It happens one application at a time...
...Egyptian film director; in Cairo. El-Kashef's best known film, Date Wine, won a Silver Prize at the 1998 Carthage Film Festival and was widely appreciated for its analysis of social relationships in conservative southern Egypt. DIED. FERNANDO BELAUNDE, 89, two-time President of Peru lauded as the "paradigm of democracy"; in Lima. Belaunde first came to power in 1963 before being overthrown in a 1968 military coup. After spending 10 years in exile, he returned to Peru to win the presidential elections by a landslide in 1980. Belaunde was also Peru's first democratically elected President to peacefully...
...Defensive Shield" marked a paradigm shift for the Israelis: The foundation of Oslo was that the Palestinian Authority would assume security control of the territories designated "Area A" - under full Palestinian control - and prevent attacks on Israel from such areas, while the Israelis would recognize PA control and keep their own forces out of Area A. "Defensive Shield" sounded notice that from an Israeli security point of view, Area A has ceased to exist. Israel now conducts daily operations inside the towns that Oslo placed under PA control, and is, as far as the lives of ordinary Palestinians are concerned...
...working hard to pay for fancy cars, mobile phones and Versace clothes. Temptations also breached the temple gates. Some Buddhist leaders were now being chauffeured in Mercedes-Benz, wearing silk robes and soliciting fortunes in donations to build ever gaudier houses of worship. "The monkhood used to be a paradigm for society," says Sulak. "Now the monkhood mirrors society, with all its problems...
...Paradigm Shift...