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...looks like a checkbook. But you'll want to open the Pocket Surfer, a new 6in. by 3in. portable Internet device from DataWind, a small tech shop based in Montreal. On most pdas and cell phones, Web pages are crunched and reformatted and take too long to download. On the Pocket Surfer, however, pages look just like those on your laptop: pictures, links, even pop-up ads (fortunately, the Pocket Surfer lets you quash those nuisances with a single button). And it's easy to set up. DataWind gives you an adapter to plug into your cell phone, which connects...
George Soros is what people mean by the word moneyman. The Hungarian-born investor has a fortune estimated at $7.2 billion. He has been among the world's largest philanthropists, giving away some $4 billion over the decades. But after 9/11 he turned his attention--and his checkbook--to U.S. politics. Soros, 74, says he was unnerved by such Bush Administration rhetoric as Attorney General John Ashcroft's claim that people who raised concerns that the Patriot Act was a threat to liberty were aiding terrorists. Before Campaign '04 was over, Soros had become one of the largest political contributors...
...best news was that scientists have found--for the first time--a drug that delays the onset of Alzheimer's in patients with mild cognitive impairment. These are people who have memory problems (slips of the tongue, brief memory lapses) but can still balance a checkbook or prepare a meal. The drug they were given, Pfizer's Aricept, is widely prescribed for patients who already have Alzheimer's. In a trial conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, nearly 800 patients were randomly assigned Aricept, a placebo or vitamin E for three years. In checkups after...
Keenen: That's the next generation. We gotta get some lawyers, some accountants, some M.B.A.s. Shawn: Everybody's in entertainment right now. We're a bunch of talented people who can't balance a checkbook...
...When it came to spending, it was open checkbook time. Like LBJ, he committed himself to as many troops as needed, to arm Iraqi forces and give them all the necessary training. His few concessions to the cruel April in which 83 Americans have lost their lives in Iraq was to say repeatedly that the last few weeks have been ?tough.? One of Bush's first lines was a classic example of his sometimes-mangled syntax: ?This has been tough weeks in that country...