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DICK TRACY LIVES Cell phones have got smaller and smaller, but your fingers haven't shrunk, making sleek mobiles like the Nokia 8860 frustrating to operate. That's why Samsung's new watchphone makes more sense than most miniatures. It uses voice-recognition software from Conversa to dial phone numbers and read e-mail in response to plain-English commands. Available late next year, it should arrive just in time to accessorize your Dick Tracy Halloween costume...
...asked me how the conversa- tion went, and then he asked me to pass on my thoughts to Karel or Hetty by phone," Holly K. Tabor '94 said...
...Whether or not it is true," he says, "most people you deal with assume that the secret police will find out they were talking to an American journalist, and will not cross certain conversa tional red lines. Speaking critically about President Assad can be dangerous, especially mentioning that he is a member of the power ful minority religious group, the Alawites." By drawing on the in formation of private and understandably wary sources, plus the views of diplomats in Damascus and Palestinian officials with close ties in Syria, Suro was able nonetheless to carpenter together a remarkably candid portrait...
...Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at Geneva. As proof to the contrary, he read out an official text of the hitherto secret agreement. Dayan's disclosures about his conversa tions with Carter and Vance indicated that the U.S.-Israeli relationship was still badly strained. In addition, there was more than a reasonable doubt that Arab leaders, who are now studying the working paper, could accept it as a formula for getting the peace conference under...
This book is a somewhat violent, some what gamy anthropology of New Orleans below the belt. Most of the material for it was jotted down in hundreds of conversa tions with Negroes and white people. It begins with the cacophonous Mardi Gras saturnalia of "Kings, Baby Dolls. Zulus and Queens'' (Baby Dolls are Negro trulls, Zulus are their men friends who elect a Negro King of the Mardi Gras). It ends with "Superstitions," "Colloquialisms" and "Customs." In between, the book's 581 pages are acrawl with underworld or otherworld manifestations...