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...locked in a cell and raped repeatedly. “Five or six soldiers would come every day. Some insisted on not wearing condoms,” Kang said. “Once when I protested, he hit me hard on my head and broke my finger. From that day on my nose bleeds all the time. Whenever someone got sick or died they would just drag the girl out like a dog.” Kang was most emotional when talking about her homeland, which she said she did not see again until 2000. “Maybe...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Sex Slave Speaks Out | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...altogether; every interaction now occurs via a glass touch pad. To select something, you simply push down on the glass pad. Or as Jobs said, "The whole trackpad is the button." This generation of touch pads, by the way, lets users do a lot more with one hand. One finger directs the mouse, two fingers enlarge and reduce images, three fingers allow you to rapidly side scroll through documents, and swiping four fingers across the pad manages all the windows one has open on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple's Latest Hack: Aluminum Computers | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...debate - a fellow named Oliver Clark wanted to know how the Wall Street bailout would help his friends who were in trouble. McCain's answer was all over the place and obscure in a classic Washington way; he detoured into blaming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and pointing his finger at Obama and "his cronies" for supporting those two incomprehensible institutions. Obama, by contrast, brought the bailout home in simple language: "Well, Oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. Right now, the credit markets are frozen up, and what that means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Surge: Will It Last? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...features designed to separate navigation and confirmation, which, Lazaridis told TIME, is the trademark of the Storm. One is the virtual keyboard: each letter lights up as you tap it so you know instantly whether you hit the right key. The second is the cursor: as you move your finger across the screen, a small arrow - which looks like a mouse cursor - appears to show exactly where your finger is pointed. Then, to confirm your selections, you push down on the entire screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BlackBerry Storm Preview: What the iPhone Will Envy | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...McCain tried to rattle Obama. He talked about Obama's "cronies" behind the collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. He jabbed a finger in Obama's direction and said "that one" voted for a pork-barrel energy bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Plays Ball Control in Second Debate | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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