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...brother John is Director of National Intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer--a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century...
...were going to be seeing a reach-out for cell phone numbers anyway,” Wrinn said. “But I just imagine—human nature being what it is—that recent event has focused attention on that area more...
Most Israelis didn't need an official commission of inquiry to tell them that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a major hash out of last summer's war in Lebanon. When Hizballah kidnapped three Israeli solders last July, Olmert launched a massive military campaign whose stated goal was beyond reach: to end Hizballah's existence as a military threat. Instead, Israeli ground troops found themselves bogged down in deadly urban combat with Hizballah guerilla whose tenacity and tactics the Israelis were unprepared for. That, together with the barrage of rockets into northern Israel that continued until the cease-fire went...
...Olmert has been mortally wounded, and will be unable to survive the Winograd judgment regardless of his own intentions. Not only have his approval ratings crashed to around 2 percent, but he is also under official investigation over allegations of financial misdoings - although these probes will take time to reach their conclusion...
...Okamura are hardly unusual in today's graying Japan, where 20.2% of the population is older than 65 - the world's highest proportion of that demographic. But few of Okamura's peers are as healthy as he is, and as the proportion of elderly in Japan increases - it could reach 40% by 2052 - the health care costs could be crippling. Japan's low birthrate means that the large families that once took care of aged parents as a matter of course are now rare, and overburdened Japanese households are increasingly turning to the state for help. But with a public...