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...Saddam Hussein [Dec. 22]. His arrest should sound a warning to other dictators. The world has become united in not tolerating human-rights abuses. Tyrants like Charles Taylor and Slobodan Milosevic have been forced out of power. A stern warning bell must be ringing in Robert Mugabe's ear. With events like Saddam's capture taking place almost live on TV, there is nowhere to hide anymore. Hans C. Steyn Pretoria...
...long after I realized this, I began to approach my day-to-day conversations with an observer’s ear. As I talked with my friends, my families and my classmates, I began to take mental notes as to the shape of each conversation: who initiated discussion, who asked questions, who tended to talk more, what topics we pursued and which ones we avoided. There was an incredible variety: some people, I got the feeling, wouldn’t disagree with me even if I got their name wrong; others plowed straight away into lengthy arguments over subjects that...
Even though Nextel developed push to talk for business use, it's the off-peak appeal that makes it hot. People are using it at supermarkets and ski lodges, anywhere that a short burst of chatter from a speaker works better than a drawn-out conversation, phone to ear. You can even talk in a group, like a voice chat room...
...ring tone you could download a new chirp, anything from a cat's meow to a foghorn, but both carriers leave you with a single, annoying alert. Your only alternative is "privacy mode." Every phone tested could vibrate instead of chirp and route sound to your ear instead of a speaker...
...video monitor, two small marmosets - tree-dwelling South American monkeys with white ear tufts - cling tightly to each other, looking terrified. A third writhes in pain, postsurgery, on the floor of its cage; others have raw and bloody head wounds that seem crudely stitched up. The animals appear in a 21-minute exposé called Cutting Edge, shot for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in one of Cambridge University's neuroscience research labs. The monkeys' brains had been deliberately damaged in experiments meant to simulate the symptoms of stroke and Parkinson's disease. Important research that...