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...podcasts were personal sound bites--a bit like audio versions of blogs. There has been no advertising. PodShow Inc., Curry's new, San Francisco-- based company, which aims to commercialize podcasting, just landed $8.9 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley powerhouses behind Yahoo! and Google. PodShow aims to bring podcasting to the masses. "Whoever wants to podcast should be able to do that for free--no matter what--and we're going to facilitate that. And if you want to kick it up and monetize it, make a business...
...employees for education, according to a national survey by Hewitt Associates. ? Government employers offer the highest overall level of benefits, a Mercer HR Consulting study found, retailers and wholesalers offer the lowest. ? General Mills employees can buy gas and get auto servicing at company headquarters in Golden Valley, Minn...
...pair had already spent several years off and on living in the Highlands among the Ganiga tribe of the Nebilyer Valley. For First Contact (1983), which was nominated for an Academy Award, the pair discovered silent 1930s footage of dumbfounded warriors meeting the first white men to enter the area. Combined with the present-day memories of old people who could vividly recall the arrival of the gold-seeking Australian Leahy brothers and their "giant bird" planes, the effect was hypnotic. Joe Leahy's Neighbours (1989) followed, charting the struggle of Mick Leahy's mixed-race...
...have to go in the end, but nothing on the scale of Gaza. Ultimately it looks like he's certainly thinking of his West Bank fence, which isn't finished yet, as the border that he'll create unilaterally, along with some kind of security zone in the Jordan Valley...
...mullahs overrun the valley, women are ordered to wear the veil and Muslims are separated from Hindus. This Islamic brutality is reciprocated by the Indian army, which destroys villages suspected of harboring terrorists. The mullahs and the army take turns in grinding paradise into hell, and Rushdie chronicles their misdeeds with mounting anger. As he recalls the violence that forced the Hindus out of the Kashmir valley in the 1990s, words gush out of him in a reflux of rage: "... and the pandits of Kashmir were left to rot in their slum camps, to rot while the army and insurgency...