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From Wisden.com :: “Andy Caddick, 34, has announced his retirement from one-day international cricket, although he will continue to be available for Tests. “This is a decision that I have been considering for a while, Ìüô he admitted. “After talking to Duncan Fletcher earlier this week, I feel that now is the right [...]

Of all the dumb things to say, politicians find something dumber. This morning’s
Wall Street Journal reports that Rep. Darrell Issa wrote to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and plugged CDMA. Good idea, perhaps, but for the wrong reasons. “We have learned that planners at the Department of Defense and USAID are currently envisioning using federal appropriations [...]

The Observer :: Libido-boosting drinks will flood into bars this summer as young clubbers are targeted with a potent new range of products that have been dubbed ‘Viagra pops’. Powerful blends of Chinese aphrodisiacs, vodka and passion fruit will create a ‘generation of randy super beings’, according to drinks manufacturers who expect the new tipples [...]

From The New York Times:: “Turkey, which denied American access to its bases to open a northern front against Iraq, would receive $1 billion in economic aid under Mr. Bush’s plan, allowing it to get up to $8.5 billion loans or loan guarantees. Israel would also get $1 billion in direct military assistance and [...]

Cable operators, already monitoring DSL’s approach, will soon see another competitor pop into their rearview mirrors when power utilities, hungry for new ways to recoup revenues being sapped by deregulation, turn their attention to high-speed data delivery — and, maybe, to full-service voice and video entertainment as well. [broadband daily]

From Broadband Daily :; EarthLink began promoting this week a new dial-up service, called EarthLink Plus, that the company contends speeds web page loading by a factor of five over plain old dial-up. Priced at $28.95 per month, a $7 premium over the standard $21.95 rate, EarthLink Plus features what the company calls its [...]