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...more is on the way. One service already attracting a lot of attention is a pilot project between MeritaNordbanken, the Finnish cell-phone maker Nokia, and Visa International, the credit-card company. Nokia will soon have available in Finland cell phones that contain two chips, one for mobile-telephone service and one from Visa that adds a nifty credit-card function to the handset. The Visa chip will allow a customer to hold the phone near a cash register and push a button to pay a bill rather than having a clerk swipe a credit card. The digital mobile phone...
...ministry has already decided to shut down some of the worst orphanages and place the children under more appropriate care, Ljajic said, but added that the problem is so huge that it would take years to contain it. "After decades of neglect, there are no swift solutions," he said...
...Thousands of birds are being slaughtered on a turkey farm in Suffolk, around 100 miles northeast of London, as officials work to contain the outbreak...
...worst concert you’d seen in a long while.All this has made Adams one of the most frustrating musicians around. Between 2003 and 2005 he recorded five purportedly-mediocre albums–and countless other unreleased tracks still confined to his vaults, which supposedly also contain a song-for-song cover of the Strokes’ “Is This It?”–that produced a lot of critical whining. And exhibit number one has traditionally been “Rock N Roll.”Which is funny to me, because...
...genetically inferior intelligence. In the ensuing uproar, Watson stepped down from his 40-year post as chancellor of the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory and cancelled the tour for his newly-released book, “Avoid Boring People.” So do the new 368 pages of prose contain any of Watson’s controversial bombs...