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...terms of female representation in government. The names of male and female candidates will appear together on the ballots, but the female candidates with the most votes are guaranteed seats, even if they do worse than their male counterparts. Afghanistan's women have enthusiastically embraced the quota. "Women are smarter than men," says Aqbalzada. "We may not understand politics, but we understand the needs of society because we are mothers. Men only understand...
...tries too hard to show off her literary cool. Through Zora, Smith now pokes fun at this fault. The girl's cringeworthy attempts to achieve bohemian-chic status are sensitively chronicled, and by the end of the tale - but not before one final, angst-ridden blowout - a wiser, smarter and much cooler young woman has emerged. Smith has grown up, too. On Beauty, short-listed last week for the Man Booker Prize, is striking for the maturity of its sensibility and suggests that Smith is, indeed, a talent to watch over the long haul. You are not simply entertained...
...time President Bush touched down in the tormented region on Friday, more than just the topography had changed. Shattered too was a hope that four years after the greatest man-made disaster in our history, we had got smarter about catastrophe, more nimble and visionary in our ability to respond. Is it really possible, after so many commissions and commitments, bureaucracies scrambled and rewired, emergency supplies stockpiled and prepositioned, that when a disaster strikes, the whole newfangled system just seizes up and can't move...
...economic decline. But this time, oil prices are rising for the opposite reason: a big growth in demand, particularly from China, rather than a curtailing of supply. In addition, developed countries have generally reduced their dependence on oil as services have replaced manufacturing, while central banks have become smarter about nipping inflation in the bud. And critically, China's status as the low-cost workshop of the world helps lower prices?and keeps them down?for everything from underwear to DVD players. "If you had asked two years ago where the economy would be if oil hit $65 a barrel...
...battle is on for the next generation of search, which will be smarter and more tailored to the individual, embrace video and music--and be accessible from any device with a chip. By 2010, search-engine advertising will be a $22 billion industry worldwide, up from an estimated $8 billion today, according to Safa Rashtchy, a senior analyst with Piper Jaffray in San Francisco. It's the reason search has become the most hotly contested field in the world of technology...