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...Treo works well enough, given the current slow data transmission speeds of Asian cellular networks. The monochrome screen isn't vivid, but Treo's display will improve when a color screen version becomes available in late summer. Where the device really shines is as a phone. All the normal functions such as caller ID and the ability to automatically capture incoming numbers are there. The Treo also solves a common mobile phone irritant. You can look up a number during a call, a function absent from conventional mobiles. Dialing is a snap. Just type in the first few letters...
...Ultimately, not much needs to be done to make these timeless tunes come to life, and since all of the contributors do solid work, what ends up standing out is a function of the song at hand - there's no faulting Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam, but their selections are less memorable than "Blue Night" (Mary Chapin Carpenter), "On the Old Kentucky Shore" (Joan Osborne & Ricky Skaggs) and especially Dolly Parton's rendering of "Cry, Cry Darlin'," a standout by any standard...
...study published in an October issue of Science, Stickgold had a group of people with normal memory function and a group of amnesiacs, who have damage to their hippocampi, play Tetris over a period of days...
...SCAN A lot of patients are taking it upon themselves to order their own positron emission tomography scan. This extremely powerful test screens your body's function rather than its structure; by visualizing cellular activity, it shows abnormal processes, such as those associated with cancers and metabolic dysfunction. The PET can spot tumors and other problems that may not be detectable with traditional MRI or CT scans. It also gives information about heart disease and many neurological disorders like Alzheimer's. Cost...
...think that's a function of her increased familiarity with your demands on her as an actress? Is it that she simply has a better sense of what you want from her in a performance...