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...because it's an outfit that historically insured ships, weather is never too far from its mind. Last year Hurricane Katrina turned heads at Lloyd's. The storm didn't just flood New Orleans; it also swept away the insurance industry's trust in its catastrophe modeling, the tool it depends on to evaluate bad-weather risk. The model assumed that a hurricane like Katrina couldn't happen in the same year as two other superstorms. Nor did it envision the off-the-scale damage caused by Katrina--275,000 houses destroyed, 10 times the number flattened by the previous...
...famous 70-20-10 policy--70% of the time spent on core issues, 30% on side and new projects--went slightly off-kilter. Marissa Mayer, who manages search products, says the company has assigned more engineers to search than ever before and plans to release a new search tool that will enable users to design and build their own flavor of Google search, scanning just the sites they're interested...
Engineers went easy on the buttons, which lets you control most functions of this 7-megapixel beauty through its 3-in. touch screen. After you've shot some pictures, play them back in an animated musical slide show. Finger-paint all over a photo with the drawing tool, and then save a copy, doodles and all. Your choice of finish is between silver and--get this--candy-apple red. PRICE...
...built-in wi-fi that comes with a free yearlong subscription to T-Mobile's wireless service that's suitable for uploading snapshots over lattes at Starbucks. It also takes time-lapse photos that can be combined into a movie. And it has an easy-to-use stop-motion tool for making Wallace & Gromit--style Claymation. PRICE...
...missiles already making their way into the country again. The UN’s failure to focus on the practical issue of disarmament is part of a general faith that dialogue can resolve deep hatred and lead to rational behavior from terrorist actors. While dialogue is an important tool toward reconciliation, history shows that dialogue alone will not deter Hezbollah from rearming, Hamas from supporting suicide attacks in Israel, and Iran from continuing its sponsorship of terror and nuclear development. Indeed, after Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2002, Hezbollah ignored UN Resolution 1559, which called for its disarmament. It will...