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...emergency line--a mandate that gained urgency following the Sept. 11 tragedies. Global Locate, a San Jose, Calif., company that creates global-positioning-system technology, could benefit from the upgrade. The company has developed a chip (above, next to a standard microchip), about half the size of a fingernail, that can transmit a cell phone's location to the police and authorized callers (your buddy list) with GPS. What's more, the signal continues to transmit when the user is indoors, a task that has been difficult for other GPS devices. The chip is being tested by several cell-phone...
...introspection. When that process does begin, here is something worth pondering: America has spent a half-century supporting dictators and tyrants all over the world (and in the Muslim world, in particular). Its reward has been global anti-Americanism. Perhaps it is time for the U.S. to abandon the fingernail-pullers and make common cause with countries like India that actually share the values that make America great?the values of freedom and democracy...
...saying, 'Who's that fat f___ sitting there?' I took one whole minute because I wanted to realize that in that minute, there were hundreds if not thousands of children who were hacked to death with a machete." The crowd, confused, booed. "If you just gave a fingernail of what you take home to michaeljackson.com, said Brando, "you could be a part of [changing] it." As of Saturday, michaeljackson.com had no area that asked for or could accept donations to anything...
...Juvenile Affairs, "does not show any remorse for his crime and has little insight into his problems." Father John Kiernan, who used to visit Solomon regularly, says he seemed unaware of the consequences of his rampage. But in 1999, Solomon carved an X across his chest, apparently with a fingernail, and last January he attempted suicide by swallowing 22 pills of the antidepressant Elavil that he had bought from another inmate...
...Juvenile Affairs, "does not show any remorse for his crime and has little insight into his problems." Father John Kiernan, who used to visit Solomon regularly, says he seemed unaware of the consequences of his rampage. But in 1999, Solomon carved an X across his chest, apparently with a fingernail, and last January he attempted suicide by swallowing 22 pills of the antidepressant Elavil that he had bought from another inmate...