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...most positive outcome of the summit is that Rice persuaded Olmert and Abbas to keep talking. But unless the three try harder next time, the U.S.-sponsored Road Map for Peace will lead in circles, going nowhere...
Mobile social networking is hot. The new Drift phone from Helio comes with a feature called Buddy Beacon that lets you see your location on a map that pops up onscreen, thanks to the global positioning system (GPS) chip built into the phone. You can also see where any of your friends are--assuming that they authorize it and own the same $225 phone. Targeted at teens and twentysomethings, the idea is that if you always knew your friends' whereabouts, it would be that much easier to meet up with them. "We create a natural extension of what people already...
...genius to find businesses or get driving directions on the fly. Sure, this option was already available on some phones without GPS, but it worked so poorly that hardly anyone ever used it. Now the $200 Verizon enV, a smartphone released in January, shows your position on a map and suggests everything from dry cleaners to plumbers nearby. Other cool offerings include the Dash Express, a $700 portable car navigation system on sale this spring with Yahoo!'s Go! local search on it, and the iRiver W10 from ReignCom, which combines an Internet phone, MP3 player and personal navigator...
...matter of six months, possibly less, cartographers will have to make a small change in the political map of Europe: according to a U.N.-backed proposal unveiled Feb. 2, the formerly Serbian province of Kosovo is about to become an independent state. Ethnic Albanians, who make up the bulk of Kosovo's population, welcomed a plan that brings them to the brink of fulfilling their century-old dream; Serbia and Kosovo's Serb minority have already rejected it, and they're struggling in vain to prevent its implementation. But as the wheels of diplomacy spin, the impact of this change...
...well-intentioned world geography teacher decided to read “Tuesdays with Morrie” out loud to our class in the hopes of imparting wisdom and decreasing the number of knife-fights that broke out each month. I may still have difficulty locating Namibia on a map, but that class imparted something more lasting than cartographical knowledge: a passionate hatred for the insipid, as embodied in the literature of Albom.For those fortunate enough to be unacquainted with his work, Albom has found a niche writing inspirational books that invariably involve a soul-searching protagonist grappling with death, either...