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...spent 22 hours in [Cyprus]. While at the hotel I was interviewed by CNN, CBS, CBS radio, and USA Today. It was a good way to vent...
...residents of Tyre are taking any chances. They are heeding the Israeli military warnings, which were relayed via the Voice of the South radio station, once run by Israel's Lebanese militia allies in the 1980s and 1990s before it went off the air in 2000; Israel appears to have resurrected the station specifically for the current military campaign. The Israelis also are using more unorthodox methods of conveying their warning - SMS text messages and recorded voice messages to local officials. Hassan Dbouk, who works with Tyre's municipality, says he received an early morning phone call on his landline...
...system to cover the sprawling country. Integration into a regional system will also be critical to avoid the blame game now unfolding between Indonesia and the PTWC, which claims its warning was never passed on. One official envisions a system that will use mosques and churches along with sirens, radio, television and SMS text messaging, but says that many technical hurdles will have to be overcome. "Using SMS would be one of the best methods but it will require a lot of technical coordination to prevent jamming when sending out to tens of thousands of handphones," says Jan Sopa Heluwakan...
...July 1 deadline expired, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, faced with bare wine shelves and rapidly dwindling revenues, was forced to sign a six-month relabeling extension. In one week, Russia's retail revenue dropped 20%, a downturn that has cost the economy some $188 million, according to Ekho Moskvy radio station. Andrei Tkemladze, general manager of Moscow's fashionable Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain, believes that the alcohol market may take at least six months to recover, with retail prices skyrocketing by over 30% as producers, suppliers and retailers make up for their losses. But the cost of drinking has always...
Through the sleepy stupor of a Sunday morning came the elevating lull of National Public Radio. Nat Hentoff, free-speech champion, was paying tribute to Ralph Ginzburg, who had died July 6 at the age of 76. That snapped me awake. Ginzburg had been declared a pornographer, had lost a Supreme Court obscenity decision and gone to jail - all for publishing a magazine I'd subscribed to when...