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...Touch in early 2009 (even though, for some psycho-consumerist reason, I've refused to buy an iPhone). I love the Touch's handiness and the fact that, beyond carrying my entire iTunes library of everything from Rachmaninoff to Lady Gaga, it also has the neat Amazon Kindle app that lets me upload War and Peace (or whatever book in my library I'm reading) and take it with me - palm-sized and backlit...
...dead Pedro Alcantara de Souza, another activist for land reform in Redencao. Police believe Souza was targeted because he works for the Federation of Family Farmers, a group that defends the rights of small producers and landowners in southern Para state. (From TIME's Archive: the destruction of the Amazon rainforest...
...space of not quite two years, turning the iPhone into a mature mobile-gaming platform to rival Nintendo's DS. The iPad will hold that hill and erect cruelly unassailable fortifications on it. The most interesting steel-cage match this year will be Apple and the iPad vs. Amazon and the Kindle in the e-bookselling arena. I've seen what books look like on the iPad, and I've seen Apple's e-bookstore. The iPad is going to fold, mutilate and spindle the Kindle. (See the best netbooks and netbook accessories...
...course, am itching to try it, but first Cue takes me through the iBook application and its online store. There has been much talk of the iPad's dealing a death blow to Amazon's Kindle reader; publishers, it seems, have long yearned to escape from Amazon's tough control over pricing. I asked John Makinson, chairman and chief executive of Penguin, why he's so keen on the iPad. He told me he likes the fact that "it gives control back to us and allows us to discover how the market is developing. Frankly, when I saw the iPad...
...Arctic. But unless we find a way to break our addiction to oil and develop viable, scaled-up energy alternatives, we'll be fighting this same battle over and over again. If environmentalists block oil exploration in the U.S., we'll look for it elsewhere - perhaps in the eastern Amazon, where much of the rain forest is already under oil and gas leases, just waiting to be developed. And the ecological impact could be even worse there, where environmental regulations are far less extensive...