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...based mobile technologies are challenging the dominance of traditional cellular networks - a shift that has left the carriers scrambling for a strategy as they increasingly face the prospect of competing head-on with their long-term collaborators, the handsetmakers. At stake? Potentially nothing less than the structure of the $600 billion worldwide mobile industry. Motorola ceo Ed Zander says: "There's going to be a lot of turmoil in the next couple of years...
...brutality of the violence has made the prospect of reconciliation even more remote. A Brookings Institution report last month found that many people who have fled sectarian violence in Iraq don't plan to go home. The displaced people of Iraq largely see their dislocation as permanent, the new reality of a changed country...
...What these findings do promise, however, is the possibility of developing heart-based therapies without the need for using embryonic stem cells - a welcome prospect for researchers in the U.S. who are restricted from working with these cells unless they secure private, non-government funding...
...Syrian opposition have promised mass demonstrations and strikes, perhaps as early as Thursday, to press their demand for the government's resignation and replacement by a cabinet in which they have greater representation. The government's supporters have promised counter demonstrations. Now, the death of Gemayel raises the prospect of a confrontation between the two sides. Already, supporters of Gemayel have rioted in the streets around the hospital that contains his remains...
...failures of the Iraqi government are only one part of the challenge facing the Administration in setting an Iraq policy capable of delivering stability and offering the prospect of bringing home American troops. What are widely believed to be the Baker group's basic assumptions - that the U.S. can no longer achieve the goals defined by the Bush Administration at the outset of the war; that achieving stability will require a regional consensus in which Iran and Syria would be important stakeholders - have already entered conventional wisdom in U.S. debates over Iraq. Since the U.S. election, talk-shows...