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FCC Chairman Slams Emergency Communications System

Even as Hurricane Rita loomed before the Gulf Coast, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin told a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation yesterday that the nation’s emergency responders require a mobile, wireless system that enables them to communicate with one another in times …

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Top 5: Things To Think About After Katrina

Most people probably still don’t care (physically, emotionally and politically) about the disaster that is now New Orleans and Louisiana (or have probably tried to move on as best one can), and if so, those same people probably haven’t even heard of the recent place crash in Indonesia that killed …

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China’s Bourgeois Bandwagon

The bourgeois bandwagon is steaming along at full speed in China, as, spurred by government efforts to further boost average per-capita living space and private home ownership, residential building construction activity will advance at an estimated 8.8 percent annual pace in real terms through 2009, greatly outperforming other major national …

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