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What's the capital of Cameroon? How about the atomic weight of cobalt? Do they call it "football" or "soccer" in South America? Help is as close as your mobile phone: just dial 63336 in Britain, type in your query as a text message and for $1.80 a new company called AQA will text you back your answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Smart Phone | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder What's the capital of Cameroon? How about the atomic weight of cobalt? Do they call it "football" or "soccer" in South America? Help is as close as your mobile phone: just dial 63336 in Britain, type in your query as a text message and for $1.80 a new company called AQA will text you back your answer. AQA, which stands for "any question answered," is the London-based brainchild of Colly Myers, a mobile-industry veteran who used to run handheld-device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Smart Phone | 7/11/2004 | See Source »

...year-old daughter and a baby due in July with former Moesha star Shar Jackson, who has trashed the couple in the press since they started dating in April. We wonder if Spears' mother, who orchestrated an annulment last time, has a divorce attorney on speed dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! She's Getting Ready To Do It Again | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

WWZN, 1510 on the AM dial, is a Boston all-sports station and currently serves as the radio home of the Boston Celtics...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Sports Briefs | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...Nestle stares in wonder at the latest bit of marketing wizardry to hit American sweetshops: sour green tamarind-flavored Shrek candies. She pops off the Shrek-shaped cap on a Crazy Hair confection and, after some initial befuddlement (of a kind no one under 12 would suffer), turns a dial on the bottom of the plastic tube. Sticky strands of chartreuse goo extrude through a nozzle and "grow" upward in apparent defiance of gravity. "Wow!" says Nestle, who has a deep appreciation for such ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains. "And it sticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Activists: The Obesity Warriors | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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