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Ever in search of needy, complaisant women, Will even answers phones for an Amnesty International telethon as a way of chatting up female callers. Eventually Will observes that single moms may be the most desperate demographic of all. So he devises a new scam. Pretending to be a single dad (which, naturally, entails having a pretend child), he joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) and gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Lad Meets Boy, Grows Up | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...keyboard version of the Treo comes with a stylus. But I prefer Graffiti the way it comes on the new Clie. Its screen records characters exactly the way you write them, helping me nail those pesky gs and 9s. Maybe someday I'll even write as fast as Mom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling with Thumbs | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Questions for Chris or his mom? E-mail him at cdt@well.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling with Thumbs | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...right? Are my mom and millions of other Graffiti users doomed to eventual extinction, their language as dead as Latin? To find out, I put the Clie and both versions of the Treo to the test. I'm a fairly fast typist and a two-year Graffiti artist, so either system could work for me. But I needed answers. Which method was faster? Which led to fewer mistakes? And which felt more comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling with Thumbs | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...Thanks, Mom. And again, happy Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Brains and Breast Milk | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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