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...that are on Rumsfeld?s desk right now. One, by civilian analysts in the Pentagon?s Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, concluded that the armed forces could be reduced by well over 10 percent without strategic detriment - with the savings getting ploughed back into the sort of high-tech weapons systems and generation-skipping investments that Bush talked about. The other, from aides to the generals that make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was simpler: Keep the military at its current size of 1.4 million people on active-duty...
...Washington will be indulged - what does Putin have to lose by engaging in lengthy negotiations over the scope of the system if the U.S. is going to build it anyway? - but not followed. In the end, nobody's going to try and stop the U.S. from building a high-tech Maginot Line. But we all know what happened to that. And the obsession with NMD doesn't necessarily inspire confidence in the administration's ability to provide leadership on more immediate global economic and political challenges...
...world for handheld computers, according to market research outfit IDC. Last year, close to 1.5 million PDAs were sold, a number expected to double in 2001. Add in cheap but popular electronic organizers, and the number swells to around 4 million. The dominant maker, says IDC, is Hi-Tech Wealth, which has a 40% share. "It's a very significant market by any measure," says Dane Anderson, IDC's chief of regional computer research. "But so far, the local players benefit most...
...property and light manufacturing. Sher struggled for years to build a market for PDAs. Even today, manufacturers complain that their main competition in China is the Filofax. "We started from zero. A complete nothing," Sher says. Today the employer of 900, he likes to needle rivals, notably Hi-Tech Wealth president Zhang Zhengyu, a software engineer who got his start distri-buting Sher's products. "Tell Mr. Zhang: 'Please, work hard to improve your technical know-how. You are still very inexperienced,'" Sher jibes. "'If you don't improve, your company will have a very short life...
...gesture was the threat that if the Palestinian Authority fails to arrest them - which it has vowed not to do - they'll be targeted for elimination. Arafat's prisons are brimming with Palestinian prisoners accused of providing Israel with the intelligence necessary to target the militants with high-tech weaponry, and Arafat is instead appealing to Washington to intercede and stop Israel's track-and-kill campaign. It won't help his case that Palestinian courts hand down death sentences to convicted collaborators, especially now that Palestinian rage following last week's Nablus air strike has pressured Arafat to order...