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...told that story to the girls, they understood the risks they would be facing.” Team members said they were adjusting to the change by finding other ways to share information. “We’re finding other ways to communicate, like getting back to AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) more,” freshman Christina L. L. Hagner ’10 said. Erin M. Wylie ’09, a sophomore, said the sacrifice was worth it. “We don’t want to put our team at risk or have...
Most important, the Pearl is a model of consumer-friendly design. RIM says it's one of the smallest smart phones, and it's thinner than most dumb phones too. Our tests revealed surprisingly long battery life and surprisingly easy e-mail setup as well. We installed AIM, Gmail and Yahoo! and could view all incoming mail simultaneously or by account...
...corporate BlackBerrys, e-mails appear on the device as soon as they are received. Our only problem was that Microsoft's Hotmail was not compatible, although its MSN Messenger, like AIM and Yahoo!, could be accessed through the Pearl's instant-messaging program. The keyboard, which overlays QWERTY onto a standard-looking number pad, was remarkably good at anticipating what word or phrase we meant to type before we were done. With Bluetooth wireless connectivity, voice dialing and a new application that lets you zoom and swoop all over a U.S. road map, the complete package is so seductive...
...type of sedation a doctor will aim for in a given operation, there are no hard-and-fast rules. In general, operating on the extremities offers more options than operating on the body's core, but the dividing lines between levels of anesthesia can be blurry. Once you get away from major surgery, pain control and sedation are often mixed and matched according to patient preference. Says Dr. Ronald Pearl, chairman of the department of anesthesia at Stanford: "It's not uncommon when we do a spinal anesthetic, say for knee surgery, to ask the patients whether they want...
...lost their life savings on this play, although there are stragglers who missed happy hour and paid $7.40 (in T2, touted as a "great deal" by the P.M.) to join the Telstra party. Worried that it would miss its opportunity to sell out of the telco (a long-held aim of the Conservatives), the Howard government announced on Aug. 25 that another public share offer would go ahead. T3 will sell about 21.8% of the company, worth some $8 billion; the remaining 30% will be transferred to the so-called Future Fund that underwrites the unfunded retirement-benefit liabilities...