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...touts itself as the world's largest wi-fi community, claiming 230,000 worldwide users-or Foneros-who can log on to each others' wireless networks for free. They do so by using FON's La Fonera wireless routers, available at fon.com for about $39. The routers split Internet signals into a secure network for personal use and a public network that can be accessed for free by other Foneros. Each user can log in to the network of any other FON user worldwide...
Such talk may amount to spin for an Administration that needs silver linings. But for Bush and Rice it may also reveal a deeper philosophical shift. In recent years the Bush team has split over whether to abandon the ambition that underpinned the invasion of Iraq--to bring Western-style democracy to the Islamic world--in favor of conventional Realpolitik, in which idealism takes a backseat to stability. The most obvious signals that the U.S. is tilting back toward realism came on Rice's trip to the Middle East last month, in which she toned down calls for democracy...
...Harvard wrestling team earned a split in this weekend’s dual bouts against Lehigh and Army, collecting its first dual victory of the season, but the major concern is the arm injury suffered by tri-captain Bode Ogunwole in his bout with Paul Weibel of Lehigh on Saturday afternoon.“He was about to take [Weibel] down,” senior tri-captain Robbie Preston said. “[Weibel] tried to throw him, and he landed funny and felt his elbow pop. He’s having his arm checked out, and the best-case...
...with a face creased with grief began chanting a mournful dirge. The penitents, sitting in rough circles, begin to pound their chests in a powerful rhythm amplified by a hundred chest cavities. Deep and as resonant as a heartbeat, the sound gradually changes tenor as thin cotton shirts split with the force of repeated blows and palms slap bare skin. Men wail...
...this, of course, is whirring along at the brain's split-second pace, and as imaging technology improves, Knutson is hopeful that he and others will be able to see in even more detail the circuits in the brain activated during a decision. Already, according to Montague, these images have revealed surprising things about how the brain pares down the decision-making process by setting up shortcuts to make its analysis more efficient. To save time, the brain doesn't run through the laundry list of risks, benefits and value judgments each time. Whenever it can, it relies...