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...society. According to the Radicanti Group, a Palo Alto-based market research firm, there will be roughly 139 million wireless e-mail users by the end of 2009, a figure that will rise by an average annual rate of 68 percent until there are one billion users by 2013. True, these data have nothing to say about the number of books these users read in a year or about the way in which they read. Yet they nevertheless sketch an outline of a burgeoning group for which even a DSL connection on a regular computer is a much too slow...
Except her job was in jeopardy, like, 5 times in one episode, so her nanosecond of brilliance belies her true mental faculties...
...several days closeted with President Karzai while urging him to accept a runoff, and exhibiting perhaps a touch of Stockholm syndrome, told the Council on Foreign Relations that he has sought information from U.S. intelligence sources about Wali Karzai's alleged drug links, but "nobody has the smoking gun." True, perhaps, but if Americans are tampering with that evidence for short-term gain, there probably won't ever be one. Notorious American gangster Al Capone, it must be remembered, was never successfully charged with smuggling, gun-running or murder. Eventually of course, he was brought to justice - for tax evasion...
...regardless of whether you like their food or their policies, McDonald's is still widely seen as one of the true vanguards of peaceful globalization. After 14 years of discussions with the Kremlin, the Soviet Union's first McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990 - a move credited with helping thaw Cold War tensions. Columnist and author Thomas Friedman has asserted that nations with McDonald's locations do not go to war with each other - the so-called Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention - although that thesis notably collapsed in the case of the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia...
...conducted on a daily basis around the globe in the name of increased American security. (If you think the U.S. is only talking to "good" guys to get information about al-Qaeda, think again - men with clean hands rarely truck with those without.) But if the Times' charges are true, the revelations that Wali Karzai is a major drug trafficker who has been protected not just by his brother, but also by CIA operatives establish a chain of causality between the efforts of U.S. intelligence to obtain information and influence and drug monies that pay for an insurgency that...