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...Internet as it exists today is far from shockproof. It has been built by independent consortia of private telecom companies and investors, and network design has been driven by economics. Reliability is important, of course, but intercontinental cable systems can cost billions of dollars, so they tend to connect to countries where demand is greatest and they often lack costly parallel backup circuits that would be underused most of the time. Vulnerabilities exist, and the recent quake found a chink in the armor. It struck in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan, an area that has an unusual concentration...
...week. this may mean nothing to you, but it means a lot to me. Warne is an Australian cricketer, one of the greatest in the history of the game and a revolutionary in his own way. In cricket there are two types of bowlers: fast and slow. The former tend to blast batsmen out with pace, the latter to bamboozle them, spinning the ball off the pitch so as to deceive and induce batsmen into a false shot. In the 1970s and '80s, when I was a kid growing up in Australia, my friends and I idolized the quickies, most...
...Former President George H.W. Bush, who had challenged Ford in the Republican primaries of 1976, noted that Americans tend to "eschew notions of the indispensible man," but said Ford was a perfect match of man and moment. "Gerald Ford's decency was the ideal remedy for the deception of Watergate," the former President said. Several times he said: "Gerry Ford's word was always good...
...major auction houses handled the bidding on historic documents. "Now, with the World Wide Web, your market is not just who is subscribing to a preprinted catalogue from Christie or Sotheby's," says Bruce Craig, the outgoing director of the National Coalition for History. Craig adds that Internet bidders tend to pay "far more than a document is worth because they get sort of caught up in the auction frenzy...
...With some help from Iraqi security forces, U.S. troops have managed to bring the level of violence down in parts of western and southern Baghdad, neighborhoods like Washash and Mekanik. In areas where U.S. troops control traffic through checkpoints and mount regular patrols, sectarian murders tend to drop. Would-be killers who fan out across the city from militia strongholds have a difficult time carrying out attacks amid car searches and street watches by U.S. troops. Perhaps the most visible example of this came in October, when U.S. forces threw up a temporary blockade around the Shi'a slum...