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...prime example of the new "smart phone" breed is the Treo 180 communicator, which hits Hong Kong and Singapore this week. Produced by Handspring, the U.S. company that also makes the Visor line of digital organizers, the Treo seamlessly combines a mobile phone, PDA, wireless e-mail, short messaging (SMS) and Web surfing into one 160-g package. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like the demon spawn of a phone and a shoe. The gunmetal blue Treo appears to be a big-screen handset. But beneath a clamshell protective cover lies a QWERTY keyboard for surfing, pecking out electronic messages...
...believe that cloning has any relevance to the routine management and conservation of endangered species," says David Wildt, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. Instead, Wildt favors low-tech methods, like the artificial insemination used to breed the endangered black-footed ferret, which is now being reintroduced to the American West. "Our laboratory works all over the world with the rarest of species," he says, "and not once have I ever heard a real wildlife manager or wildlife scientist say, 'Gee, we must attempt to save this species using cloning...
...William Holt, a research fellow at the Institute of Zoology in London, the best approach is to learn more about species' reproductive systems and the social conditions that can make animals want to breed naturally. "If you know those things, you can improve success rates a lot without doing anything invasive." Where cloning technology may be useful, Holt allows, is "where the species is down to 50 or so. You could sample cells from all of them. You could re-create all of these 50 individuals. You've still got the genetic variability that is important." Failing...
...producing All the President's Men in 1975, I insisted on casting Jason. It was a way for me to return his generosity, and it was wonderful to watch how he nailed the character of Ben Bradlee. He was a consummate actor, almost the last of a breed. He was tortured, and he carried that with him and used it beautifully. He was also incredibly warmhearted and generous. One of the bright spots of my career is having met and worked with...
...over a building is in conflict with a culture of dialogue. The proper use of demonstrations and rallies is to promote discourse that might otherwise have been flagging, to compel students and administrators to confront the issue and consider where they stand. Occupying a building is of a different breed, and just because a protest is non-violent doesn't mean it's non-coercive. To the extent that it interferes with the university, that it harasses and annoys instead of persuades, the protest represents coercion rather than dialogue. "We get our policy, you get Bendetson," as the signs...