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...buildout accelerated, phone companies were creating a painful paradox in which their new technology generated a lower return on investment. The payoff for Internet traffic was particularly dismal, since data can travel across the street or around the world for the same basic charge. And this forced equipment suppliers to slash their prices, putting a further squeeze on their profits. "For the first time in history," says Tracey Vanik, a technical director of the RHK consulting firm, "there's no penalty for distance"--compliments of the Internet...
...paradox is actually codified in Vietnam's laws: every citizen is guaranteed the right to worship, but "abuse of religious rights" is punishable by up to three years in prison. According to Zachary Abuza, a Vietnam expert at Simmonds College in the U.S., it is not individual faith that Hanoi opposes, but the prospect of a nationwide structure of authority that could topple the party's monopoly on power. Hanoi has thus appointed Vietnam's Catholic bishops since 1975, annoying the Vatican, which recently elevated an exiled Vietnamese bishop to cardinal. There are dissident priests in Vietnam, like Father...
...That's an interesting paradox, since in many ways the two sides of the Atlantic have never been closer. The U.S. and Europe move $1 billion a day between them in goods and investment, making each the other's most important market. Who's the biggest employer in France after the government? The 1,250 American companies operating there. What were the top movies in Germany last week? Mel Gibson's What Women Want and the Hollywood thriller Hannibal. Vivendi owns Universal, Daimler owns Chrysler, and top Daimler executives (like many in multinational European companies) are required to speak English...
...Food Network has always been a paradox, delivering the A to Z of cuisine to a population that lives on the canned sauces and Boston Market meals touted in its commercial breaks. It's an audience that, as Ming Tsai points out on the phone from his restaurant Blue Ginger, spends thousands on Viking stoves, then uses them to heat takeout...
...situation that has been making activists mad for years: The paradox of people, persecuted in their own countries, who come to the United States to find a new life - only to find themselves imprisoned in conditions similar to the ones they tried to escape. Now that is about to change. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has issued new, comprehensive guidelines for the treatment of more than 20,000 detainees currently awaiting immigration hearings across the country...