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...screen, and none of the handful of people I let try it had anything nice to say about it either. That's a shame because the Storm has a slew of handy extras that neither the iPhone nor the G1 can match. But an annoying user interface is a deal breaker. (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
...Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger. That's a sore disappointment compared with the thousands of iTunes apps you can click to right from your iPhone and the hundreds of Android Market apps available for the G1. There's no built-in music store on the Storm either, although a deal with Rhapsody is in the works, according to RIM. Worse, you can't talk on the phone while you surf the Web (a limitation of Verizon's CDMA network), and there's no wi-fi. Sigh...
...Since 1994, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs have spent nearly $440 million on Gulf War research, or so the agencies said. The panel found that much of the money had been used to fund research wholly unrelated to GWI. In fact, a great deal of the DOD's "Gulf War portfolio" consisted of projects for currently deployed soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the DOD has slashed funding for Gulf War research from nearly $30 million annually to less than $5 million in 2006. "Consequently," the panel writes...
...Trade. During the election campaign, Obama, needing the support of labor unions and working-class voters, vowed a dramatic retreat from America's free-trade agenda. He opposes the U.S. - South Korea trade deal and promised "a change from the U.S. policy approach [toward China] of the past eight years," including possible new restrictions on Chinese imports. The deteriorating American economy and job picture will make it nearly impossible for Obama to shift and become a free trader. Yet a regionwide free-trade area will eventually be Asia's future. Obama needs to embrace that, while simultaneously investing in American...
...idealistic Japanese is attempting to sway the world through cultural, social and economic means. Japan doesn't tend to trumpet its efforts - understandable given the nation's imperial past and historic disregard for national boundaries. When a Japanese real estate firm snapped up Rockefeller Center in the 1980s, the deal unleashed unease among some Americans, who feared that Japan was literally taking over America. But this time around, its campaign for global hearts and minds has been far more successful. According to a BBC poll this year, Japan ranks second in the world when it comes to a positive global...