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...Ultimately, though, the advertising opportunities may prove too tempting to wait for invitations. "Korean teenagers send on average 66 text messages a day," Spurrell says. "They have a higher emotional attachment to their mobile than to their mother." Now he has to convince consumers to love the ads as much as they love their phones...
...Bacci family commissioned what is widely considered his masterpiece in the city's Basilica of San Francesco. The Legend of the True Cross, a complex yet perfectly proportioned fresco cycle of 12 panels, uses contemporary models and references to tell the ancient legend of how the Emperor Constantine's mother discovered Christ's cross during a pilgimage to the Holy Land. The modest "skyline" of 15th century Arezzo, for example, served as his model for biblical Jerusalem...
Despite advances in technology, typing may be the deciding success factor. The OQO2 differs from the FlipStart in featuring a slide-out keyboard rather than a traditional clamshell top that flips open for laptop-like input. "My mother forced me to take touch typing in high school, and I've always been glad for that," Allen says. He argues that the FlipStart's flat bottom lets users put it down to type comfortably...
Kasparov, you might say, has been enveloped by politics all his life. Being a Soviet chess prodigy will do that for you. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1963, he started playing chess before he was 5. After his father died when he was 7, Kasparov's mother Clara--whose last name he took--shepherded his career. (She still does. When TIME interviewed Kasparov at their spacious, Soviet-era apartment in Moscow recently, it was Clara who kept an eye on the clock and reminded Kasparov of his next appointment.) As he grew up, Kasparov says, he became aware...
...first time, researchers have identified twins that are identical on their mother's side, but share only half of their father's DNA. The twins, now toddlers, have been described as "semi-identical" - caught somewhere between identical twins (the result of the cleaving of an egg fertilized by one sperm) and fraternal twins (the result of two eggs meeting two sperm). Lead investigator Dr. Vivienne Souter says that while the term semi-identical provides some idea of how the twinning occurred, it is "an oversimplification...