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...from the personal computer. That's why Logitech created the IO Personal Digital Pen ($199), a new, cyborganic writing implement that bridges the otherwise mutually exclusive worlds of screen and paper. Here's how it works: the IO writes like an ordinary ballpoint pen, but it contains a computer chip that records and remembers every scribble. When you're through writing, the IO downloads your jottings to your PC, where you can either save them as pictures or use handwriting-recognition software to convert them to text in an ordinary Microsoft Word document...
...everyone so worried about cod? In Britain people eat over 172 million cod dinners a year, most of them from the fish-and-chip shop. Cod is especially vulnerable to heavy fishing, because it is a large species that doesn't reach sexual maturity until at least four years of age. But cod can be harvested from the age of one, which leaves fewer and fewer fish of reproductive age. Whenever collapsing cod stocks are mentioned, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are held up as a grim example of what can happen if things are left until too late. Canadian...
...East Timor, Octavio Soares, has 156 children in his charge and has clashed frequently with U.N. officials seeking their return. Critics claim people like Soares and Hasan are motivated less by altruism and their religious beliefs than by greed. Hasan uses children "as an asset or a bargaining chip" to get donations, charges Soni Qodri from Riantara, a Jakarta-based non-governmental organization that has helped locate many of the missing...
...voted on again in the lower house, in which Schröder has an absolute majority. Big business has been a vocal critic of Schröder ever since he started hinting that higher taxes are necessary. "We are on the wrong path," says Ulrich Schumacher, ceo of chip maker Infineon. "I do not know anyone who is not worried." Ludwig Georg Braun, president of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, attacked Schröder's reforms. "Emergency repairs are not enough to get the economy working again," Braun said. "The government must show willingness for comprehensive reforms...
...more of a team effort this year,” Harvey said of the Crimson’s approach on defense. “Drew was definitely our go-to guy on defense last year, but without him, more people are working hard on defense to chip...