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...pages of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and the 23-year-old, who'd grown...
...world's largest bank, managers wanted to christen the venture with a hopeful name, a word to signify a new era of Japanese banking free from the backward ways that have helped to cripple the world's second largest economy. The name they chose was Mizuho, meaning "a fresh ear of rice...
...short-range radio technology called Bluetooth that's built into some of the newer-model phones. The headsets offer more freedom than their corded counterparts by letting you stray up to 30 feet from your phone without being encumbered by a cable that might yank on your ear or get caught on your coat buttons...
...setup took so long that I never made it to either Grand Central or Times Square. But I did manage to pick a favorite: the $150 HBH-30 from Sony Ericsson. The sound was loud and clear, and the headset fit comfortably around my ear. Unfortunately, you probably won't be able to use this headset with your cell phone because it works only with phones like Sony Ericsson's T68i and T300 and Nokia's 6310i, which come equipped with Bluetooth. More Bluetooth phones and headsets are due out in early 2003, from Nokia, Motorola and others...
...uses 900-MHz wireless technology instead of Bluetooth. First, you need to charge it for three hours via the cigarette lighter in your car (and in many cars, with the motor running) or else buy a separate wall charger for $15. Worse, the headset was bulky and hurt my ear. But the clincher was the dismal sound. "It sounds like you're on an international call," my sister told me. Definitely not the effect I was going...