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...Though they have deployed only a few thousand Web-enabled ATMs in the U.S., manufacturers are already primed for the next phase of automated tellers to be used in a wireless-or even cashless-society. This spring, NCR will begin a pilot program in Denmark that lets users access their cash by pointing a Bluetooth-enabled mobile device at an ATM rather than inserting a card. The company is preparing a drive-up ATM that works with dashboard computers in certain cars. And at a conference last month in Singapore, Asian bankers had to sign a nondisclosure agreement before...
...What can't be denied, however, is that in China's vast and troubled rust belt, workers are cautiously but increasingly taking collective action. In the urban wasteland of Zhengzhou in Henan province in central China, more than a thousand kilometers from last week's protests, workers have braved arrests and beatings to protest the closure of their factories. More workers are traveling the country, making contacts, liaising. "There's a level of organizing between factories that we haven't seen before," says Li Qiang of the New York City-based China Labor Watch, himself a former Sichuan construction worker...
...various accounts, are also finding support from a coalition of disparate groups within Afghanistan. These include the Iranian-backed Hezb-i-Islami movement, which before the Taliban came to power was one of the most dangerous factions among the Afghan mujahedin, and Ittehad-i-Islami, which has a few thousand underfunded troops in southern Afghanistan. These groups once opposed the Taliban, but Afghan intelligence sources confirm that the old disputes have been sidelined in the face of a common enemy: America and its Afghan allies. Astad Abdul Halim, Ittehad-i-Islami's Kandahar commander, blasts the province's U.S.-backed...
...GIRL WITH A PEARL NECKLACE PW adores "The Strand of a Thousand Pearls" by Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling...
...drawn to each other at a party that they have "a sexual collision" against a bathroom wall within two hours of meeting each other. Are the sex scenes in his novel taken from Schrank's own life? The author smiles coyly. "After I've revised them a thousand times, I don't know what's true and what...