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...campaign of terror to intimidate would-be candidates, electoral workers and voters from showing up at the polls. The insurgency is believed to number some 20,000 to 40,000 hard-core fighters, although Iraq's interim intelligence chief says it is able to call on a wider pool of up to 200,000 Iraqis for active support. For Islamists such as Zarqawi, the campaign is a rejection of democracy per se, and a reiteration of his demand for clerical rule. But for the former Baathists, the strategic logic may be that keeping Sunnis out of the process would deny...
Some businesses have had an easier time making the call. In Ohio, Cleveland's Dover Lake Waterpark had a Tsunami pool, which didn't seem quite so inviting after the tragedy. Shortly after the disaster, it was rechristened Whitecap. --By Jeremy Caplan
...announced last June that it would open an R.-and-D. facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large pool of skilled computer scientists and basic-science researchers. China offers something else too: an entry point to 1 billion Chinese consumers. Motorola's researchers in China, for example, adapted the Chinese-language version of its A760 mobile phone. Other companies are doing only basic research, biding their time until they...
...Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...
...Telecom announced last June that it would open an R&D facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large pool of skilled computer scientists and basic-science researchers. China offers something else too: an entry point to 1 billion Chinese consumers. Motorola's researchers in China, for example, adapted the Chinese-language version of its A760 mobile phone. Other companies are doing only basic research, biding their time until they...