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...entertaining as a shopping montage. She’s a rich girl, remember? That’s what rich girls do—they go on shopping sprees, they get flustered when they have to pump gas, and they manage to get lost on road trips despite the GPS in their Range Rovers. It’s ironic then—what with the editors’ reducing them to two-dimensional characters—that the opening credits feature Jaime and Ally depicted as paper dolls resting in a purse. Do we think they understand that?...
...gadget freak drool. Now you can get hot video games and a decent MP3 player wrapped up in one device. Lots of handhelds have full Web browsers too, along with instant messaging and a medley of ring tones that are fast becoming standard fare. We even found a GPS tracking device with a built-in jogging computer that you wear on your wrist. Fortunately, many of these new machines also come with improved battery life and enhanced color screens. This is all part of a secret campaign to make the newest mobile devices more irresistible than the ones you already...
Garmin Forerunner 201 The latest in wrist-tops, the Forerunner GPS does everything for runners: maps your route, clocks your speed, counts your calories and creates a "virtual partner" that you can race. garmin.com...
...February, al-Jaburi says, he flew to Kuwait, staying in a villa with his CIA handlers. They equipped him with $50,000 in American currency, a GPS locator, satellite phones and a forged Iraqi identity card showing completion of military service so that he could move around Iraq unhindered. Al-Jaburi says he left for Iraq on March 11, guided across the border by smugglers arranged by Kuwaiti intelligence. "I'd been in the SSO, so I knew how dangerous this was going to be," al-Jaburi says. "But I also knew...
...next time you buy a car, think seriously about opting for side air bags. They're not as sexy as GPS screens, but a new report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that they save lives and may ultimately be as vital as seat belts--especially when they offer head protection. Every year, 9,000 people in the U.S. die in side-impact car crashes. That's 30% of all auto-occupant deaths. The institute's report is the first to assess the real-world efficacy of side air bags. Using government data on driver's-side collisions...