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...Internet age there are very few questions that can't be answered with a simple Google search. And with Web-capable cell phones, there really isn't any need for KGB or the similar service ChaCha (which is free but more annoying because its messages are riddled with ads). So KGB has to distinguish itself by the accuracy and speed of its answers. To find out if the company's service is of any use, we put it to the test, sending different questions at different times throughout the day to 542542 (or "KGBKGB"). Below are the unedited texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...many such families. According to Dr. Frank Greer, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition, 55% of infants born in the U.S. are eligible for the national Women, Infants and Children feeding program, which provides food for low-income mothers and their children up to age 5. But because the program is food-based, it does not include vitamin and mineral supplements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Wrong Kids Taking Multivitamins? | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...there were such a thing as a golden age of capital punishment in America, it peaked in 1999. There were 98 executions in the U.S. that year, the highest number since 1976, when the Supreme Court, which had overturned all death penalty laws in 1972, began approving them again. For most of the 1990s the number of death sentences handed down annually by courts had been humming along in the range of 280 to 300 and above. And it had been years since the Supreme Court had done much to specify whom states could execute and how they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tide Shifts Against the Death Penalty | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...Slender with thick hair and a shy smile, Ali made headlines in Yemen last April when she walked out on a man more than three times her age, to whom her father had married her off. It was an act driven by terror and despair. (See the top 10 crime stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 10-Year-Old Divorcée Takes Paris | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...Asked how she spent her week in Paris, Nujood's eyes widen as she says, "I saw the Eiffel Tower; I saw the Seine." Shaken by the testimony of violence during her divorce trial, Yemen's lawmakers raised the minimum age of marriage from 15 to 18. Two other girls in Sanaa - one age 9, the other 12 - have since sued for divorce, while an 8-year-old in Saudi Arabia has won a divorce suit, apparently inspired by Nujood's tale. Nujood says she hopes to ignite a far broader movement of girls to quit their child marriages, adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 10-Year-Old Divorcée Takes Paris | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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