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hoped. How do you like it? • In Syria, a populist revolt against a dictator threatens to become a civil war as Russia and Iran back their client in Damascus and the West defaults to a useless United Nations. The conflict threatens to spill into neighboring countries. • Iran continues its march toward a
nequalities of our time can galvanize a generation's worth of problem-solving. Engineers and technology wizards from Silicon Valley to Sao Paolo to Bangalore to Shanghai have world-saving ideas up their sleeves. Universities around the world are home to legions of students and faculty intent on solving
more polarised. A growing number want to see the end of the regime; many still cling to it as better than an uncertain alternative, particularly in Damascus. The middle ground has been shrinking. The result has been an apparent stalemate. Protesters gain ground but have yet to cross the crucial threshol
iming responsibility for attacks. That was their modus operandi in 2007 and 2008, after serial bomb blasts in several cities, including Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Jaipur. There was no email known to have been sent today. There have been other attacks since the vicious Nov. 26, 2008 attack on Mumbai. Last
e was poor and could do nothing about it. It is November 2010. Within hours protests begin in Sidi Bouzid. They spread to Tunis. 81Then Tripoli. Then Damascus. You watch as the anger, moving on once-invisible technological lines of video and text, demolishes the stability of all of North Africa. Over the ne
es. Networks can be defined by geography, or by language or currency or data protocols or any of a thousand particular features.!! People who live in Bangalore, is a network. As is, Switches running DNSSEC protocol on the Internet or Businesses transacting in Rupiah. An engineer might say: Network power is s
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