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Consider Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, the brains behind the ubiquitous PDA, the Palm Pilot. They left Palm three years ago and started Handspring with a scheme for a competing PDA, the Visor. Within 15 months, Handspring was shipping its new Visors, thanks to Flextronics and Solectron. And now the Visor has 7% of the $4.3 billion global PDA market...
President Bush claimed to have read Vladimir Putin's soul by looking into the Russian President's eyes. Now he may need to ascertain what lies behind Putin's Cheshire-cat smile - because the immediate future of Bush's prized missile defense scheme may be decided by the Russian leader. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle sounded notice Thursday that his party would use its control of the Senate to restrain the administration from acting unilaterally - and on missile defense that means negotiating an agreement with the Russians...
...Right now, the planned missile shield would violate the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, and Russia and China have voiced strong objections. Washington's European allies are mostly agnostic on missile defense, signaling that they'll support the scheme only if the U.S. can persuade the Russians to agree to renegotiate the ABM pact. And last week, Foreign Relations Committee chairman Senator Joe Biden - currently in China discussing missile matters with Jiang Zemin - warned that his party would stop the funding for missile defense if the administration went ahead amid opposition from Russia, China and U.S. allies...
...least likely threat we face." Instead, the Senate leader called for a reallocation for some funds away from missile defense towards improvement of "theater" missile defenses to protect U.S. personnel in combat situations from short-range and cruise missile attack, for counter-terrorism programs and for an under-funded scheme to help Russia destroy nuclear weapons...
...missile defense, the administration is sending mixed messages. The White House will consult with allies and erstwhile adversaries, but at the same time insists that it will scrap the current framework of arms control treaties if those allies don't consent to the scheme. That, and the administration's rejection of a slew of smaller agreements on issues ranging from small arms to biological weapons has sent a message that Washington doesn't care much about any rules except...