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Once clunky, overpriced gadgets that did little more than store phone numbers and addresses, handhelds are being reincarnated as sleek wireless accessories that let you do anything from find the nearest Lebanese restaurant to edit an Excel spreadsheet--all while standing in an elevator or waiting at a bus stop. PDAs are on their way to becoming the next must-have gadgets, like cell phones, showing up in the hands of everyone from Puffy to Rosie. Michael Jordan is reportedly planning his own signature Palm. Someday your PDA may even become your cell phone, electronic wallet and personal entertainment system...
...words of telecom analyst Jeff Kagan, "looking for someone to throw them a life preserver." By the end of the year, many carriers may be offering unified audio messaging (Would you like to hear your e-mail, voice mail or faxes?) or enhanced directory assistance (Driving directions to the nearest Home Depot, anyone?). With the help of location-sensing technology like embedded gps chips in cell phones, you won't even have to explain where...
...none of them seem particularly up to the job, mentally or morally. The viewers will live - Rodger is starting to make me a little uncomfortable with his very friendly hugging of the nearest comely lass. Nick's a dud. And Elisabeth - well, she's a peach, but the I-just-want-to-stay-here-with-my-friends-a-while-longer stuff is simply not helping a show that could use a little more scheming these days...
...with such materialistic triflings gratis. Either way you choose, the real problem you face is the freezing procedure itself. Even with the heavy perfusion of anti-freeze into your system, your body is still mostly water, and each polar water molecule is just waiting to partner up with its nearest neighbor in a nice hydrogen bond as the temperature plummets. And as water crystals begin to form they slice and dice their way through your cells, Benihana-ing until they homogenize your now frozen cellular structure. Bummer...
Harvard will again look to its dominating duo of Botterill and Shewchuk for offense. The Kazmaier finalists are one-two in scoring in conference play, with 55 and 53 points respectively--twenty points ahead of their nearest competition in third...