The next over, bowled by Yasir Arafat, was the one in which Pietersen went from first gear to overdrive, marmalising a chest-high full toss for four and smashing the next ball high into the pavilion.

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The flurry of deals has slowed, but not the orders for high-tech imaging gear used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

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No surprise that contract manufacturers for electronic gear have sprung up in Malaysia and China, where skill levels are high but labor costs only a fourth what it does in the U.S. GM's former parts-making subsidiary, Delphi, which opened its first plant in Mexico in 1978, now has 55 plants there.

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It follows some high-profile Twitter hacks in recent days - including accounts for Burger King, Jeep and BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

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Huawei and ZTE have proposed a similar approach in America, working with outfits such as Electronic Warfare Associates and other private firms that vet high-tech gear for the US government.

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Nonetheless, Mr. Harper charges that academics like me, who are obsessed with high theory, cause "institutional inertia" in law schools and prevent the sort of evolution necessary to gear students up for the 21st-century legal market.

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