Whether you support the war in Iraq or not, I think it's important to remember that war is expensive. Those costs are very personal to the families of these soldiers.

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IBM's 90-nm process has yield problems. That isn't surprising. What is surprising is that the company admits it, blaming yield for the Microelectronics Group's failure to turn a profit in the first quarter.

My guess is that if IBM's yields are so bad that they're affecting profitability, other companies aren't doing any better.

When I was growing up, the public library was about two blocks from my house. I practically lived there. Libraries have come a long way since then. Internet access has helped turn them into community centers, while helping them provide even better access to information.

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How do you make 10,000+ servers work together? Google knows. So does Akamai. Which is why, Simson Garfinkel suggests, the two companies face little competition, except perhaps from each other.