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...When you?re ready, go to the new carrier. Don?t cancel your existing service, because that happens automatically during the number ?port,? and canceling early could cost you your number. The new carrier will verify your information with your old provider. To speed this up, bring your old bill and keep your personal data (nickname, mailing address) consistent. Once it clears, the actual transfer can take anywhere from 2 to 24 hours or, if you?re moving your landline number to a mobile, up to four days...
...Condoleezza Rice, a passionate football fan, was at FedEx Field outside Washington, watching the Redskins play the Seattle Seahawks, when she got a call from L. Paul (Jerry) Bremer, the American proconsul in Iraq. For the better part of two weeks, Bremer and Rice had been discussing how to speed the transfer of power to Iraqis. Both agreed that the matter now required face time with Administration principals in Washington. When the conversation resumed the next day, it took just a quick look at calendars--President Bush was off to London for a state visit then to Texas for Thanksgiving...
...society--courts, a free press, a constitution, habits of consensus rather than confrontation. Only after the invisible infrastructure of a modern state had been established would Iraq move to elections for a government and sovereignty. But that idea involved one fatal conceit: that the clock would move at a speed of the Administration's choosing. Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, said acidly last week, "The American representatives on the ground continue to use the language of all the world's occupation regimes--'Just a little more time...
...software makers and factories creep cautiously out of this recession. Texas Health Resources is barreling full speed into a boom. Demand for health care is expected to be so strong that over the next 10 years, this group of 13 hospitals dotting the cities and suburbs of north Texas will hire 2,000 people as part of a $1.5 billion expansion...
...KM/H Speed reached by an experimental Japanese maglev train, which floats above its track on a magnetic field, setting a new world record...