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...shares of Google and IBM have handily outperformed those of all the other large tech companies based in the U.S. such as Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO), and Oracle (ORCL). Each of the companies is blessed with substantial earnings and technology staffs in the tens of thousands. But, the firms are not all viewed the same, at least by investors who trade tens of millions of their shares each...
...Germany tightened its gun-control laws in 2002, after a school shooting in the central town of Erfurt left 18 dead. But after the Winnenden shooting earlier this year, campaigners lobbied the government for even tougher legislation, which, they say, could prevent further massacres. (See pictures of the Virginia Tech tragedy...
Actually, Dylan announced the onset of his seniority in 1997 with the excellent Time Out of Mind, a dark and wistful album that looked backward more than forward, his voice a nasal husk of itself, accessible only to his most persistent fans. There was a high-tech hipness to Time Out of Mind--the damp, echoey sound provided by producer Daniel Lanois--that doesn't exist on the new album. Everything about Together Through Life is simple: the lyrics (a collaboration with the old Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter), the instrumentation and the sound, which Dylan admits, in an interview...
...global tourism boomed, with an average growth of 3.6% a year. But as consumers tightened purse strings and canceled vacations in the second half of 2008, tourism's contribution to the world economy grew by just 1%, the industry's worst performance since the bursting of the high-tech bubble, the outbreak of SARS in Asia, and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 hit international travel earlier this decade. "The last months have been increasingly challenging," says Jean-Claude Baumgarten, president of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), an organization of travel executives, "and we clearly haven't seen...
...operations" campaign in Afghanistan and Pakistan to take down insurgent-run web sites and the jam radio stations. The Afghan government, for its part, has opened a new $1.2 million media center with international support. Staffed by a team of Western-trained spin doctors, the facility includes a high-tech media monitoring wing and an outreach department tasked with building better working relations with journalists...