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...upshot is that last week I used my iPod for half a dozen more things than it was intended for. I read my horoscope, skimmed the latest news and sports headlines, sent little memos to myself, checked my appointment calendar and uploaded my entire address book. I also cranked up the tunes, although not in the way Apple planned. The iPod's original restrictions--that you can share music with only one Mac and that you can't use it with a Windows PC--have been totally blown away...
...waned over the course of the current intifada to the point that he is no longer able to impose his will on the Palestinian street. Or, he is unable to find the political will to reassert his authority against the tide of Palestinian public opinion. Either way, the upshot is the same...
...cutting sharply into business travel, whose high-margin tickets account for nearly 80% of industry profits. Costs were skyrocketing, pushed by labor contracts negotiated in flush times. And now travelers, worried about security and wary of delays and hassles at airports, are looking for any excuse not to fly. Upshot: airlines have cut flights 20% from pre-Sept. 11 levels, yet planes still flying are at just 65% of capacity, compared with an estimated 73% before the terror attacks...
...many cases, banks are not bothering to perform due-diligence reviews to see if the money they are handling is linked to drugs or terrorism. Making matters worse, the banks taking out correspondent accounts are, in some cases, doing so for other banks that they know little about. The upshot: it might not be hard for bin Laden, who controls a Sudanese bank, to wire money to a friendly neighborhood bank branch in any U.S. city. Or for members of terrorist cells to make withdrawals...
...Regardless, the upshot is that it just became that much harder for members of the media to play the nothing-bad-can-ever-happen-to-me game. Osama Bin Laden may have had something or nothing to do with it. But if he thinks these attacks are good news for him, he's not quite as media-savvy as we've made...