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Then they decided to build it, throwing the equivalent of $10 million (in funds and hardware) into the project, and emerging with a blueprint for a machine with an Intel chip, 32 MB of ram and 16 MB of flash memory. Running the free Linux operating system, it features a picture-based touch -sensitive screen, multilingual text-to-speech capabilities and a writing pro-gram that differs enough from the Xerox-patented version used on Palm Pilots to skirt costly licensing fees. It allows e-mail and Net access, provided there is a working telephone line. All this, with smart...
...area, however, Let's Go is playing catch-up. Lonely Planet recently partnered with Palm Pilot to allow tourists to forgo a clunky map and travel book for a square inch chip of information. Soon, Let's Go hopes to do the same...
...ship with 286 condos and 183 hotel rooms. After scaling back, he was able to attract investors, including the Continental Casualty Co., a subsidiary of Chicago-based insurance giant CNA Financial Corp. But to persuade penta-millionaires to buy, ResidenSea assembled a cadre of credible associates, including its blue-chip investor Silversea Cruises, which will manage maritime and hotel operations. ResidenSea also marketed through sophisticated make-believe. Inside a factory near Vienna, the company built condo mock-ups so inviting that some residents bought art and rare books right from the displays. A promotional book brims with fantasy letters: "Venice...
Bush did open one tiny window. Once again he mentioned getting the plane back, but by now this was a bargaining chip. The Chinese were not likely to relinquish such a prize, yet by demanding it Bush might allow them to save some face by releasing the crew but keeping the plane. By the time Rumsfeld issued his first statement the next day, there was no mention of the plane. "The plane doesn't matter anymore," said a Bush adviser. "It's destroyed anyway...
...just kids. After all, our bellies don't add up calories to calculate when we should feel full; it seems to be more a question of the volume and composition of the food we eat. Consider which you would be more likely to do: reach for another chocolate-chip cookie after you've already finished three in a row or bite into another apple after you've polished off three apples? If you're like me, the cookies win hands down. Yet the average chocolate-chip cookie contains 5 calories per gram, compared with the apple's 0.6. Bottom line...