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“Negroponte, who confesses that the “unexpected resistance from industry” had for him been the most challenging aspect of OLPC, had harsh words for companies such as Intel,” Dell, Microsoft. But it seems that so many of the decisions are Negroponte’s alone: the BIOS problems, the hand crank, etc. Netbooks should be simple.

World famous Mayo Clinic releases rare political statement, saying while there are positive elements, overall “the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients…In fact, it will do the opposite,” clinic officials said. “The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.”

The massive figure comes from what would happen if each department spent 100% of what they could — in other words, if they behave traditionally. Neil Barofsky, assigned watcher of such things, also says in his quarterly report today that “hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars could be lost” due to lack of transparency.

“Nasty, vicious, fanatical old men, not human emotions, were making the decisions and deciding the days and the hours of death.” But the numbers of suicide bombings have diminished significantly in recent days. Temporary truces, targeted assassinations, and wallbuilding don’t explain the change in the whole, so Hitchens looks deeper.