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...home button at the bottom of the phone is a multitasker's must-have. The G1 remembers the last six applications you used and keeps them running and easily accessible in the background; press the home button and a small menu pops up displaying the icon for each open app. It's handy for those times when you want to play a game, check the news online and snap a quick picture all within a matter of minutes...
...disarmament negotiations among the U.S., North Korea and its regional neighbors. Meanwhile, officials in Pyongyang released a purportedly recent photograph of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, in an attempt to refute rumors of his failing health. But experts in South Korea and the U.S. say summer foliage in the background indicates that the pictures are months old, raising further questions about the reclusive leader, who has not been seen in public since...
...American-studies courses (one student says he's developed a "toolbox" to analyze cultural phenomena such as ripped jeans), useful factoids (the novel Moby Dick tells the story of the hunt for a whale, not a criminal), and a video that shows Chevy trucks traversing the U.S. to a background of nostalgic folk music...
...diminishing math proficiency rates. While many charge that mathematic skill is the purview only of the few and gifted, proficiency is clearly within the range of all students. Those who excel in math are not necessarily those with the greatest raw intelligence, but those with a strong background who have been encouraged to practice their skills. Rather than abandon children to calculator computations in their early years, our curricular standards for math, from kindergarten to high school, should perhaps be modeled after the more rigorous math lessons in Asian and Eastern European countries. American cultural attitudes toward math have paralyzed...
...appointment: "I have no background in health, but ANC told me that is precisely why they want me in this job. They are clear, they want health delivery, they want things to improve...