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...Apple has sold more than 160 million iPods to date, and it's good business to refresh the lines now and again. It's hardly news, though. Indeed, the most interesting non-health related item to come out of the event was the news that a possible fix for some of the bugs that plague the iPhone - better battery management, less crashing, faster backups - is coming out in a 2.1 firmware on Sept. 12. But the iPhone's long-awaited cut-and-paste functionality? Keep waiting...
...Fix the Vote Re the quote in "Back & Forth" about letting thousands of voting machines stay broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, Long Beach, California...
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...Polly Watts will be spared that ordeal. That's partly because the 43-year-old remained in the city through Hurricane Katrina and learned lessons in getting back on her feet quickly. Despite the unrest that followed Katrina, she was able to quickly fix up her bar, the Avenue Pub, which sits on St. Charles Avenue. And so Watts chose to remain for Gustav as well. "Being here immediately after the damage is done gives you the ability to make temporary repairs," she says. "Had we evacuated, it might have taken us a month to get back into the city...
...Pennsylvania Ave. for orders. If it's not Cheney treating George Tenet as a court jester, it's some analyst badgered until he changes his assessment. What I'm trying to say is that it's not the CIA that is broken, it's Washington - which means the quick fix is to build a firewall between a hopelessly partisan Washington and the CIA. And it wouldn't cost much...