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...error occurred while processing this directive] has arrived. Woburn, Massachusetts-based VoiceSignal has created VoiceMode, which allows mobile-phone users "to say it, see it and send it." It takes approximately one minute and 75 taps of tiny keys to create and send this text message: "Leave tix at box office - running late." Dictate the same text with a VoiceMode-enabled phone in seconds...
...Then disaster struck. Referee Markus Merk, considered one of the best in the world, awarded Ghana a penalty kick, harshly ruling that American defender Oguchi Onyewu had fouled Rozok Pimpong in the penalty box as the U.S. man tried to play a mis-hit clearance. Ghana captain Steven Appiah made the most of it, beating Keller to his right on the ensuing spot kick. "I think we'd all agree it wasn't a good call to have that in the 47th minute, after our team worked so hard to get back in the game," Arena said. "To be positioned...
...field, the crosses have to be better," says Reyna, looking ahead to Ghana. In soccer this is known as the final ball, and it hasn't been there. The U.S. will also need to get more players on the end of those crosses - "more numbers in the box," says Reyna. Some better shooting would hurt either...
...host is De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. The stones passed out here represent slightly fewer than half the total carats released to the world every month. To be a "sightholder" means you have convinced De Beers you will not make waves by selling too much from the box at wholesale or by protesting the quality of your allotment. You are virtually guaranteed to make a healthy profit from your box, whose cost can range from $1 million to $30 million...
...Suskind reports new details on Delta Force's shipment of a hatbox-sized container to Dulles Airport in Washington's Virginia suburbs in mid-2002. The round metal box, Army green with "US GOVERNMENT" emblazoned in yellow, purportedly contained the severed head of Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy. He supposedly had been killed in December 2001, and buried in an Afghan riverbed. With a $25 million bounty on his head, Afghan tribal chiefs provided the jawless head to the U.S. military. The skull, Suskind reports, still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container...