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...having spent billions over the years on undercover agents, phone taps and the like, plans to create a large wing in the spookhouse dedicated to sorting through various forms of data that are not secret--such as research articles, religious tracts, websites, even phone books--but yet could be vital to national security. Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that CIA Director Porter Goss plans to launch by Oct. 1 an "open source" unit that will greatly expand on the work of the respected but cash-strapped office that currently translates foreign-language broadcasts and documents like declarations by extremist clerics...
...making the case for a Kyoto alternative. In a press conference last week, Prime Minister John Howard called the treaty "a failure." Ian Campbell, Minister for the Environment, hammered away at the fact that the protocol hasn't got universal support, relies too much on restrictions, and inhibits "absolutely vital" economic development. Another theme is that the world needs a plan that extends beyond 2012, when emissions limits set in Kyoto end. Even the 2012 goals are in jeopardy. "I don't think Europe can achieve its goals. I don't think Japan can," says Warwick McKibbin, an economist specializing...
...tell which bacteria might be causing an infection or whether it's even bacterial at all, so they'll dose patients with more than one antibiotic at a time just to be safe?a practice that also encourages resistant bacteria. It doesn't help that drugs are a vital revenue source. Mainland hospitals generate at least 80% of their revenues from drug sales, according to China's National Development and Reform Commission...
...Media Commission (NCMC) opened consultations on the award, later this year, of as many as five mobile-network licenses. Potential bidders include Bechtel, Lucent Technologies, MCI, Nokia, Nortel and Persia Telecom. In a country where just 3% of the 26 million population has a landline, mobile links are vital. Market penetration is about 10% and rising. Three licenses awarded in 2003 - by the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority - expire on Dec. 22. Transparency is the watchword, says Siyamend Othman, CEO of the NCMC. Hearings, he pledges, will be held on Iraqi television "and we will be asking some tough questions...
While most Americans past eighth grade seem to consider cell phones as vital as air, kids under 13 have remained largely unfettered. That may be changing. The Walt Disney Internet Group announced in early July that it is teaming up with Sprint to develop a line of mobile phones, due out next year, aimed squarely at preteen children. Meanwhile, the market is already filling up. In March, Firefly Mobile debuted a model designed for the lunch-box set. Later this summer, a company called Wherify will debut its Wherifone, and in September, Enfora will introduce its version, the TicTalk...