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...international market for mobile adult content reached $1.7 billion, according to Juniper; 45% of that revenue came from Western Europe, where mobile porn is more widely offered by carriers. "There's less of a drive to regulate the industry in Europe," says mobile-industry consultant Chetan Sharma, who adds that U.S. and Canadian carriers have largely avoided carrying porn applications for fear of a public backlash. Before the new iPhone was announced, Juniper projected that revenue from mobile adult content would rise to $4.6 billion by 2012. With millions of 3G iPhones in the market, Juniper's principal analyst Windsor...
...doesn't hurt that the author has an ear for precision and an aversion to cliché, and is also engagingly honest. "In mid-March 2005, U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland announced Congo had become 'the world's worst humanitarian crisis,' " he writes. "For the few Western journalists based in the capital, this was fantastic news, meaning we'd somehow edged out the tsunami in Asia and the genocide in Sudan in the race for absolute misery...
...Nearly 200 porters jog around the warehouse, a steady stream of men carrying 100-lb (50 kg) bags of food on their heads. Trains and trucks arrive full from local traders and from the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, where ships bring donated food from the U.S. and other Western countries. (About two-thirds of WFP's food here is purchased locally, and one-third is donated in kind.) A local bean supplier arrives. Two women in blue lab coats take samples, check that there isn't too much extra matter mixed in and weigh the bags. The porters then...
...regime is not shy about its embrace of violence. The MDC, say Zimbabwe's rulers, is an instrument of a Western plot to restore the white rule it overthrew at independence in 1980. On June 13, Mugabe was quoted by the Herald as saying that Zimbabwe's voters had made a "mistake" by giving Tsvangirai a majority, one that "can cause a lot of suffering for the people if we go back to war." The militias had asked him if they could do just that, he added. "They said this country was won by the barrel...
Some ordinary Zimbabweans are no less defiant. In Warren Park, a western suburb of Harare, Mugabe's election posters have been defaced with messages such as MUGABE IMBAVHA (Mugabe is a thief) and HAULUME BOB (You won't get anything, Bob). Moyo remains determined. "I'm going to ask my wife and son to carry me to the polling station on June 27," he tells TIME. "I believe Zimbabwe will be free one day. I will exercise my right and continue to support the party of my choice." Zimbabwe's rulers may be dispensing with the pretense of democracy...