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...Speaking to TIME on Tuesday morning, Baul says most of Kukundu's and nearby Gizo's 7,000 people are still up in the hills, although a small group of youths had remained at the college as lookouts, with instructions to ring the college bell if another wave was sighted. Late on Monday night, he says, one of the youths rang the bell for fun. There was panic on the hillside, followed by relief and rage when locals realized the young people had been joking. "They were looking for the boys to punch them," says Baul. But false alarm...
...consider mobile banking, versus the 35% or so who already bank online. "It's hard to motivate someone to download something on their phone, and even if they do, it doesn't mean they will use it," says Forrester's Charles Golvin. While 20% of consumers have downloaded new ring tones, for example, less than 10% have done so with mobile games...
...have heard such pronouncements of impending doom before, of course. Howard Ruff's How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years was a top seller in 1979. Ravi Batra's The Great Depression of 1990 hit No. 1 in 1987. Ruff's book did in fact ring in several very bad years, and there was a recession in 1990. But doom was averted, the economy came roaring back both times, and the lesson learned was that betting against the continued prosperity of the U.S. was a losing strategy...
...would be nice, the police superintendent says, to take down the high, barbed-wire-topped walls that ring Antrim Road police station. Plenty else has changed already. The petrol bombs and bullets the walls used to hold back have stopped flying. Guards at the gate no longer keep their guns conspicuously unholstered. In fact, so much has changed in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that when a young Catholic like Rory Fitzpatrick - who just 15 years ago could have viewed the force as his natural enemy - explains why he joined in 2004, his answers are unremarkable: good prospects...
...drug trade tomorrow by legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums saved on incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education. William A. Ring, SAN DIEGO