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These kid-centric-phone makers insist their devices are not intended for tots who want to kick back in the sandbox, chatting with friends. Rather, they are designed to help children let their parents know about, say, school scheduling changes or to reassure parents that they can reach their kids at any time. Instead of the standard numbered keypads, the kid phones have a limited number of oversize keys and controls that prevent children from dialing or receiving calls from numbers that parents haven't programmed in. Wherifone comes equipped with a global-positioning system (GPS) so parents can find...
TIME Do you ever kick yourself for not joining David Neeleman when he wanted to start JetBlue with...
...hints of behavioral rules in songbirds. A given species tends to have similar songs but with local "dialects" that vary from one territory to another. If a bird sings with a nonlocal accent, he says, "everybody knows: 'Oh, my God, there's an invader.' Then they get upset and kick it out." The question, Blumstein says, is whether that's a sign of ethics or just instinct...
...Washington, CNOOC responded last week by trying to kick-start the approval process, asking the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), run by the U.S. Treasury Department, to begin its analysis of the bid. The only problem was, CFIUS, an interagency body that reviews mergers between foreign and American companies for potential U.S. national-security risks, gets to work only after a deal is done. It won't move until it is clear that CNOOC is going to win Unocal. Banking sources say Chevron may well wait until shortly before the Aug. 10 Unocal shareholders' meeting before...
Bewitched means to be a civilized entertainment, which occasionally it is. But the gentility of this antique sitcom cannot be recaptured at this late date. What this revival needs is a good kick in the pants. And that Ephron and friends lack the low cunning to deliver. --By Richard Schickel