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...naming the iPhone the best??invention of 2007, you forgot about Windows-based PDA phones [Nov. 12]. They've been out for years. Touch interface? Big deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, MMS, e-mail (through POP, IMAP, Exchange), surf the real Web at broadband speed on EVDO networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile PDA phones are for adults who need to do real work...
That's because babies are remarkably attuned to emotions. The best???and easiest?gift a parent can give his or her child is relaxed time when the parent is focused on the baby and follows the baby's lead. If the baby grabs at waxed paper, the adult can repeat the word paper and show him or her how it makes noise or how it can be crumpled. "The infant brain craves novel stimulation, but that can be found in ordinary nonstructured, nonmarketed things around the house," says Ross Thompson, a psychologist at University of California at Davis...
Caught in television's klieg lights, these happenings at their best???and worst?illuminate the mood of America...
Private companies can best???and at least cost?accomplish the goals of public regulation if the state does not tell them precisely how to control bad side effects but sets standards and allows the companies freedom to devise means of compliance on their own. The Environmental Protection Agency's "bubble plan" for air pollution control is an example of this flexible approach. Rather than strictly controlling the pollutants from each and every smokestack in a factory, the agency sets overall standards for the effluents from the entire plant or groups of plants. The air-quality goal is the same...
...Howard Hughes. This is good news, for Beatty has evolved into an exceptional movie star. Once a moody, latter-day James Dean, he is now the wittiest of leading men. He brings eroticism to the screen, but not at the expense of sensitivity and self-effacing charm. At his best???especially in McCabe and Heaven Can Wait?his acting belies his looks; he makes the audience feel protective...