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...does a guy become chief technology developer of the world's largest business-software company by age 34? Answer: by getting an early start. Shai Agassi, the diminutive Israeli wunderkind of German powerhouse SAP, programmed his first computer at age 7. "Other kids collected baseball cards," says Agassi with a grin. "I collected punch cards...
...Guerrillas, after all, conduct most of their military actions with a view to sending a message - they can't hope to beat their enemy head-to-head on a battlefield, so they try to sap his will to remain on their turf. The reason they killed 17 Italian carabinieri at Nasiriya on Wednesday was not because they believed the Italians are integral to the coalition's combat capability; it was to send a message that the U.S. and its allies are not safe even in the supposedly tranquil Shiite south of Iraq - and that message appears to have...
Dartboard cautions California’s voters not to punish their governor for problems he did not create—not because of any fondness on Dartboard’s part for the slick-haired sap, but because doing so would transform the governorship into a game of Russian roulette. If the governor can be tossed out in the street at any moment due to factors he cannot control, there will be no persuading any wise and prudent leader to run in the first place. Film actors and smut peddlers may be the kind of star candidates Californians will have...
Gugul, short for gugulipid and no relation to Google.com is a natural extract of the sap of an Indian myrrh tree that has been valued for 2,500 years for use in medicine, incense and perfume. Lately it has been touted as a safe alternative to statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs. But a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports the herb is no better at lowering cholesterol than a sugar pill. --By David Bjerklie
...ensure security and restore such basics as electricity and water. The insurgents seek to compound those failures by spreading chaos and fear, disrupting reconstruction efforts by sabotaging pipelines and power grids, attacking technicians and aid workers - and killing an American soldier on average every other day, hoping to sap U.S. morale and further alienate the troops from the local population. The bill for the war already runs upward of $60 billion, and some experts predict reconstruction could eventually cost as much as $600 billion. President Bush won't allow the ongoing attacks on coalition forces to shake his resolve...