Word: wiring
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...lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg saw he would never get the party's nod and switched eight months ago to the anemic New York G.O.P. He is hoping that his puckish smile, fabulous parties and high-wire life (he owns homes in Manhattan, London, Bermuda and Westchester County, flies his own helicopter and has dated women like Diana Ross) will outshine a Democratic field littered with smart but lackluster pols. And Bloomberg has proved that his dollars come with sense, hiring an A-list team of political veterans to finesse his policies and produce his image...
...intifadeh. Abu Amira had already collected his ration and loaded it onto his cart. He was sweaty, dirty and angry. He came early, but it was hot even at 8 a.m. First, he pressed through a crowd of men to hand his ticket to a clerk behind a chicken-wire grill. The clerk stamped his ticket and Abu Amira jockeyed at another window for the second stamp required for him to collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last his family of five for a week...
...company has stayed ahead of the luxury pack. Although most of its 21 factories are in Europe, BMW built a new plant in Spartanburg, S.C., which now exports the company's popular X5 SUV to 100 countries. Aiming to develop technologies such as alternative-fuel engines and drive-by-wire (an electronic, joystick-controlled steering system), Milberg forged partnerships with Robert Bosch and Delphi Automotive. Karl Ludwigsen, an auto analyst in London, contends that a carmaker need not be huge to survive. Rather, he says, "you've got to be big in the segments in which you compete...
...busy spans. The bridge is 13 months old and reveals just how open--and closed--the border is these days. It's sleek, wide, built for speed and highly efficient: regular semis have electronic passes that let them zip right through. But the bridge is also slung with concertina wire; 55 state and federal agencies--from the irs to the FDA--have offices in town. Here only Customs and the National Guard carry side arms. The feds lack the troops to check every truck, so they inspect randomly. On an average day, about 8,000 trucks will cross here, hauling...
Modalen isn't the easiest place to wire. Nera has supplied each house with plate-sized antennas allowing families to link to the Net by a radio linkup. (As the town's few residents are scattered over 385 sq km, using copper or fiber-optic cable would be too pricey.) The Internet is connected to a set-top box on a TV, controlled by a wireless keyboard. Modalen's 2 megabits per second is roughly 35 times as fast as conventional modems. Each customer pays $18 a month for the service; the municipality covered the installation costs of nearly...