Word: delling
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...Novelist? Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father can. And many do. Men are scared of other people's pain," he writes. Veltroni...
...Numbers 4.1 million Number of lithium-ion batteries recalled by Dell, the world's largest PC maker, over fears they could cause laptop computers to burst into flames $400 million Maximum estimated cost of the recall, which Dell will share with the batteries' manufacturer, Sony Corp...
...take any incident like that extremely seriously," Dell spokesman Ira Williams says of the Osaka incident. Williams says that Dell's investigation had begun before the incident, and additional data contributed to the recall decision...
...Both Enderle and Shim consider the recall to have been well handled. Shim points to Dell's buoyant stock price as an indicator of public support. Enderle indicates the easy-to-use website as an example of how Dell is "setting a standard for how things should work during a recall...
...Battery recalls are nothing new - Hewlett-Packard is also in the middle of one right now (click here to check your system) - but Dell's is considered the largest in consumer-electronics history, affecting 15% of its laptops sold in the past two years. Shim and Enderle agree that it is prudent to visit Dell's website and check to see if your battery is on the list. Says Shim: "Only 6 computers out of 4 million have been hit - those are terrible Vegas odds - but I wouldn't want to be the guy that it happens...