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...family name with a built-in camera, a memory-card slot and a much brighter screen. Inside, amenities include an updated Palm OS, 32-MB of onboard memory and a processor four times as fast as the Treo 300's. Of course, you'll still have to contend with the cramped little keyboard. Expect the phone to sell for around $550 in mid-October; Sprint PCS will be the first to offer service. GSM versions offered by Cingular and T-Mobile are expected to follow...
...Cambridge smoking ban, we are told, aims to improve the workplace safety of bartenders and waitresses, that noble lot forced to contend with low pay, no health insurance and, if they work in Harvard Square, passport wielding Euro-trash who don’t know how to tip. But, behind the second-hand smoke statistics and public health claims lurks the upturned noses and holier-than-thou stares of those “pious gentlemen” who believe in letting us live only as they...
...Cambridge smoking ban, we are told, aims to improve the workplace safety of bartenders and waitresses, that noble lot forced to contend with low pay, no health insurance and, if they work in Harvard Square, passport wielding Euro-trash who don’t know how to tip. But, behind the second-hand smoke statistics and public health claims lurks the upturned noses and holier-than-thou stares of those “pious gentlemen” who believe in letting us live only as they...
What do you have in common with a lab rat that has spent five days in a refrigerated cage? More than you might think. Rats, like people, are prone to stress. No, they don't have to contend with deadlines or traffic jams, but when temperatures fall, their bodies exhibit classic signs of chronic stress. Indeed, several experiments performed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, show that if the animals have access to sugary water and lard, they will forgo their normal, nutritious rat chow and load up on sweets and fats...
Pakistan?s government has recently had to contend with charges that its military and intelligence services continue to aid the Taliban, and also that it may have exported nuclear technology to North Korea. Now, celebrated French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has suggested that even the plot to murder American journalist Danny Pearl may have reached the upper tiers of government in Islamabad...