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...more be on display. The job requirements of punditry - commenting on a variety of political and nonpolitical happenings - are not necessarily the best preparation for a run at the Republican nomination, even in this environment. (Just ask Pat Buchanan.) When asked by O'Reilly why she is still the target of so much criticism, Palin replied, "It's not about me personally. They don't like the message. They don't like the commonsense conservative solutions I articulate." Maybe. But eventually, even other Republicans may be emboldened to challenge her. (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...China's official annual defense budget of $71 billion, although military experts believe Beijing's true military spending is substantially higher. But any commotion generated by the Chinese test is somewhat passé. Ballistic missiles follow a predictable arc through the skies that makes them relatively easy to target. But both China and the U.S. have developed low-flying cruise missiles designed to fly underneath such antimissile shields...
...David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, wrote on the company's official blog that Google uncovered a broad hacking attempt in December that was targeted at more than 20 technology, finance, media and chemical companies. A primary target may have been the Gmail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists. "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered - combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web - have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China," he wrote. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quickly issued...
...explains why, even before the Christmas Day incident, al-Awlaki was of such interest to the U.S. government that it tried to kill him. On Dec. 24, the Yemeni military, pressed by the CIA, fired rockets into his home south of Sana'a. Al-Awlaki was not the principal target - the top leadership of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was thought to be meeting there - but U.S. officials were hoping the strike would also take out the cleric. He wasn't home...
...long ago, the only time luxury-car brands like Audi or BMW made an appearance in India was in movies or at auto shows like this one. Not anymore. As the economy has grown, so has India's appetite for luxury automobiles, making it an important target for foreign automakers looking away from Western markets mired in global recession and whose streets are already bumper to bumper with cars. "India is one of the markets of the future," says Paul Blokland, managing director of Segment Y Automotive Intelligence, an automotive-consulting firm based in Goa, India. "Manufacturers are looking...