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...goods for the 73-year-old Senator, who is struggling to win his party's nomination for a fifth term. She earnestly and at times poignantly argued that McCain is a true Tea Party conservative. She said the movement is short on battle-tested, experienced veterans in Congress to take the fight to the Democrats alongside younger firebrands like Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and Palin herself. "We need new blood," she said, "but we also need heroes and statesmen...
...much speed does it take to inspire such fervor? The broadband network that Google is offering may cost as much as $1 billion to build and will be able to transmit 1 gigabit per second. That's fast enough to download a feature-length DVD movie in about 70 seconds - and more than 100 times as fast as the typical connection available in the U.S., which ranks 22nd in the world in network speed, according to Akamai, an Internet-analytics firm. The Google guys are doing this to help spur the U.S. to overtake Romania and other...
...resistance to unpaid internships in the U.S. These jobs have become such a widely acknowledged stepping stone to employment that in late March, the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank in Washington, proposed the creation of a federal program that would give stipends to low-income students who take unpaid internships in public service, which the government defines as work at nonprofits and government agencies. (See the best business deals...
...Motorola knows all too well, it will take a red-hot hit to capture those new customers. The 81-year-old American institution, based in Schaumburg, Ill., has a celebrated history: its engineers invented the cell phone and, before that, the walkie-talkie, as well as one of the world's first semiconductors. By the early 2000s, it had also produced the best-selling mobile phone of all time, the StarTAC, the world's first clamshell. It surpassed that feat with the ultra-sleek Razr, introduced in 2004. The Razr transformed the mobile market, and more than 100 million units...
...highest paid U.S. executives that year. "Motorola's [board] had to decide - shut down the business, or find one of the very few people both capable and willing to turn things around," says Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton. "Someone of Sanjay's caliber had to have incentives to take this...