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...touch screens on everything from PDAs to the ticket kiosks at the movie theater. Why not one for the camera? The key is screen size: the N1's roomy 3-in. LCD makes touching, even without a stylus, easy. The interface is well designed. While shooting, you can control flash, shooting mode, file size and more with a tap, and then enter a menu for more options. Immediately after powering it up and shooting a few pictures, I found myself tapping this way and that, like I was the author of the user's manual or something. I was able...
Although rarely seen in public, Abu Samhadana is emerging as the most powerful figure in this flash-point town on the border between Gaza and Egypt, where the intifadeh was at its most murderous. As the founder of an armed militia called the Salah ed-Din Brigades, he commands 2,000 gunmen who since 2001 have fought deadly battles with Israeli forces patrolling the border. But now that Israel has pulled its troops and civilians out of Gaza and turned over responsibility for the area to the Palestinian Authority, Abu Samhadana and his troops have a new target: Palestinian President...
...Still, determined Chinese web surfers manage to tunnel through today's firewall with the help of software that guides them to overseas "proxy servers," computers that enable them to fetch and view banned content. Activists smuggle proxy software into China and pass it hand-to-hand on flash memory devices. "It's really cat and mouse," says Bill Xia, president of U.S.-based Dynamic Internet Technology, whose product bounces users among many proxy servers, making it hard to track the surfer's identity...
...American Spoon Sour Cherry Preserves ?A Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash camera ?A small tin of Trendy Mints from Henri Bendel, New York City ?A DVD of the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, in which a teenage boy is masturbated by an adult ?The Harbor Springs Visitors Guide ?The Aug. 16 issue of the gay magazine the Advocate, whose cover featured a shirtless man and blared, SUMMER SEX ISSUE...
...most U.S. citizens live in a different kind of perpetual fear? Both homegrown gun violence and international terrorism have literally raised our "threat level" to red. And didn't the current U.S. President characterize North Korea as part of an "Axis of Evil," a rhetorical flourish worthy of Flash Gordon...