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...Would the regulators go for it? Bush?s FCC is willing to listen to reasons why cable dominance could be good for bringing more customers into the world of broadband, an industry that desperately needs them, and AOL could certainly promise that. But the prospect of a far-and-away dominant cable company - and one that already owns a hefty share of the all content under the sun - could be daunting to any regulator worried about the possibility of monopolistic pricing in a deregulated industry. And the way the Bush trustbusters haven?t quite let go of the Microsoft case...
...With bankruptcies come unemployment, a much dreaded prospect in Japan, where being jobless is regarded as profoundly shameful. Experts say that with Koizumi's reforms, joblessness could soar to double its current rate in no time. Heizo Takenaka?the academic Koizumi appointed to head up economic policy?is well aware that his boss's political life may hinge on unemployment figures: jobless people make angry voters. That is why, he recently told TIME, reforms must not take longer than two to three years; that is how long his administration figures people are willing to endure the suffering. Takenaka says...
...where Zheng He would have anchored his boats during his visits - I meet Ma'ruf. At 27, married at 15 to a 13-year-old girl, he still has a boyish face and a loose-limbed manner. He was born and raised on Madura but, unemployed, unmoved by the prospect of spending his life in the tobacco fields, he left for Sampit in Borneo several years ago and found work as a driver. Last February, long simmering tensions between the Madurese and the native Dayaks erupted. The Dayaks, in hand-to-hand, town-to-town combat, embarked on a rampage...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) arrested Walter Souza of Prospect St. at the Galleria Mall for drug possession with intent to distribute...
...ultimate fate of the cosmos too gloomy to contemplate, even at a few trillion years' remove? A lot of you got downright doleful at the faraway prospect. "Thank you for making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian from Castro Valley, who called our story "the most depressing thing I have ever read. It seems we are doomed no matter what we do. Pass the Prozac." A Houstonian was "extremely distraught to think of the universe as an infinitely large, charred nothing." But in Cincinnati, Ohio...