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...Just as important, wireless executives are beginning to look for ways to reduce the cost of building the UMTS networks, which Durlacher says could add another $126 billion to the 3G price tag. BT has indicated that it would be interested in sharing costs with other operators...
...heavily restricted. And the French ad police don't care if you're hawking something as sobering as customer-relationship-management software. The U.S. software firm Blue Martini, based in San Mateo, Calif., was hoping to run print ads in France featuring its signature azure cocktail and a tag line that read, "This martini won't go to your head." But, after reviewing the tough 1991 ad law, the company's lawyers put their campaign back in the bottle...
Most students choose a medical school for its prestige or price tag. I chose one where I wouldn't be the only student born before 1970. Two years ago, at 32, I traded in my Hollywood executive's black blazer for blue hospital scrubs at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Thirty-two may seem young, but in medical education, which can last more than a decade, it's often considered over the hill...
...wife, Liu Yingli, rang the U.S. consulate, which assured her that her husband was alive but had been detained. More than a month later the former political activist remains in custody, and according to someone close to the family, the accusations against him are "very similar" to the espionage tag the government last week hung on researcher Gao Zhan, who has been held since Feb. 11. The latest detentions fit a pattern. A Chinese court last November sentenced Stanford professor Hua Di to 10 years on charges linked to spying; in 1999, police detained Dickinson College librarian Song Yongyi...
...outlook for the garbage-dump people of Boa Vista is a fly-blown, post-apocalyptic scene of desolation at the edge of the world. Their shacks are built of cardboard, driftwood, old iron and fraying plastic. Near-naked children play tag among the filthy debris. Only one in three will survive beyond the age of five. Most of the Boa Vista squatters have no formal identity papers. They have to beg, steal or barter for food and clothing. Motorists who drive along the potholed road below the cliff-dwellers look the other way. "Yes, we know about Boa Vista," said...