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...time is right. it is the age of "me." Cell-phone users hold personal conversations loud enough for the world to hear. Drivers swerve down the freeway, coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other, honking and worrying about no one but themselves. Totally uninteresting people make videos describing their lives, as if someone should care. Has all this noise made things better? Maybe the next Persons of the Year should be "They," so people might actually consider the existence of other human beings. Bob Widmer Pleasanton, California...
...Bush's affinity for signing statements (more than 500 in his first term alone) fall into this category: when he doesn't want to veto a law, he just asserts that it doesn't apply to him. Biotech entrepreneur Paul Abrams proposes that if the law funding embryonic stem cell research survives a Bush veto, Congress should allow for another little box on tax returns letting people check off whether they agree for their tax dollars to be used for research. "This mechanism would provide active acknowledgement of people's deeply held views," he argues, "without compromising hESC research...
...demanded the victim’s iPod, which he gave to them, and the victim then took out his cell phone, preparing to call the police. At this point, the robbers also demanded the victim’s cell phone...
...just threw my cell phone at them and ran the opposite way,” the victim wrote. “I went into the first store in front of me which was the Harvard Book Store and called the police...
...that the precedent has been set, it will be interesting to see if other cell-phone makers start demanding Apple-style treatment from wireless carriers. Stanley Sigman, Cingular's president and CEO, committed his company to the iPhone two years ago sight-unseen, but he appears understandably eager to play down the uniqueness of Apple's deal. "I think the interesting aspect of it is our willingness and ability to work together, to allow Cingular to be Cingular and Apple to be Apple," he says. "We have great relationships with other manufacturers. But he's clearly brought a product...