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...maintain a static posture of defiance while Washington seeks to build pressure for international action. Instead, it is likely to accelerate its own diplomatic efforts - ?playing games,? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it on Sunday, after Iran offered to restore the IAEA's right to conduct snap inspections at sites not designated as part of the nuclear program, which would give the watchdog the ability to follow intelligence leads on suspected illegal nuclear activity. But "playing games" may actually be effective, for if Iran uses the deadlock to advance new compromise proposals of its own, differences between...
...bawdy for Grandpa or they feature the talent-free scrawlings of a local artist. You can't help but think, "I wish I could make my own postcards." It turns out you can, if you have access to a camera phone. To send a custom-made postcard, simply snap a picture with your mobile and send it to British-based firm Mobycards, tel: (44-7921) 505050, or as an e-mail from your phone...
...dimensional bar code commonly found on the front of magazines, which can bounce readers to a website, a competition or discount coupons. Last October in Tokyo, Northwest Airlines blew up QR codes to as large as 10 m in height and put them on billboards for passersby to snap, decode and win air miles in an online contest. Television execs are not about to give up the game, but on one selling point the outdoor industry is improving: its metrics. How many people see an outdoor ad and when they see it can be tracked much more accurately than ever...
...send a custom-made postcard, simply snap a picture with your mobile and send it to British-based firm Mobycards, tel: (44-7921) 505050, or as an e-mail from your phone to postcard@mobycards.com if you're signed up with a non-British mobile provider. In the text part of the message, type "Mobycards" followed by the recipient's address and your greeting. Mobycards will then print your picture and message in old-fashioned postcard form and pop it in the mail the same day, as long as you contact Mobycards before 3 p.m. GMT. The service is available...
...France has a plethora of long-term, short-term, temporary and limited work contracts that are at the heart of the current dispute. Russia in theory has a civil code that lays down workers' rights, but in practice you get hired the same way you get fired, at the snap of a finger. Précarité, the word that brings millions of young French people out into the streets, is the norm there. Forget about a pension big enough to retire on-you have 40 years to figure that out. Health care is more problematic, since getting sick puts...