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...short texting on the side. Those vaunted wap handsets turned out to be an unusually complicated and slow way to get a football score. And for most of us, GPRS - the data-friendly wireless system the boffins call 2.5G - remains just another acronym. (The consultancy Analysys reckons only one-third of people with GPRS phones use the new services.) "Even though we've had these mobile data networks up for a couple of years," admits Kent Thexton, chief marketing and data officer at the British network mmO2, "there hasn't been that much to do on them." The operators...
...that damage may be lasting. A new TIME/CNN poll finds that fewer than one-third of Americans expect the economy to improve in the next year. It is not just that we have confronted in WorldCom the worst case of fraud in U.S. corporate history; today the bluest of chips, from Merck to General Electric, are being challenged about their bookkeeping. The perception of deception is so widespread, the stakes so high and the costs so great that investors are choosing to forfeit a game they now think is rigged. The markets skidded last week straight past their 9/11 lows...
...play poker instead; it's a safer bet. The Wall Street Journal profiles the barber who has given up on cnbc and now takes longer walks with his wife because he knows he has to stay in shape--he'll be working more years than he had thought. Fully one-third of Americans between 50 and 64 said they had decided to delay their retirement because their assets had shrunk in the market--and that was back in February. "There's no doubt there are more now," says G.O.P. pollster Frank Luntz. "They saw their retirement in the near future...
...face, are a lot more modern-looking than anyone would have expected at so early an evolutionary stage. "A hominid of this age," writes Bernard Wood of George Washington University, in a commentary accompanying the Nature articles, "...should certainly not have the face of a hominid less than one-third of its geological...
...vegetarian" also reported that in the previous 24 hours they had eaten red meat; 60% had eaten meat, poultry or seafood. Perhaps those surveyed thought a vegetarian is someone who, from time to time, eats vegetables as a side dish--say, alongside a prime rib. If more than one-third of people in a large sample don't know the broadest definition of vegetarian, one wonders how they can be trusted with something much more difficult: the full-time care and picky-picky feeding of their bodies, whatever their dietary preferences...