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...combat bureaucratic timidity with the power of grand gestures. Two of his first actions after taking office were making a landmark apology to Aborigines who were essentially stolen as children from their families, and putting Australia's signature on the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which Howard, like his pal George W. Bush, had declined to do. (See pictures of the deadly wildfires in Australia...
...running, meaning you don't need to be using, say, an instant-message app to be alerted that you received a message. This fix, which lets apps alert users via text messages, also means that all those cool-sounding social-network apps that let you know when a pal is nearby will finally work. In geekspeak, this alert system is known as "push notification," and it's something software developers have long wanted. The ways this feature will be used are endless, and useful...
...view as the Board both historically and into the future as being more of a best friend, a best pal, than an overseer if it is someone who is higher than others,” said Morgan Chu, who found out that he had won during Commencement, where his brother, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, delivered the keynote address...
...them, a pal from high school, wrote back Sunday night. He now worked for a tech company in Louisiana, and asked if Ward would be interested in being put in touch with the Web-development group. Ward eagerly agreed and had a phone interview the next day. "Here I was four hours into being unemployed and I already had a phone interview," he recalls. "I was like, Wow, this is going to be impressive...
...horrible weekend in Vegas, but you can't spend a lot of money on talent. Which actors do you cast? The leading role of Phil, the smart, energetic audience surrogate, might have suited Jim Carrey or Vince Vaughn, so go with Bradley Cooper, who was Carrey's pal in Yes Man and Vaughn's preppie torturer in Wedding Crashers. Steve Carell would have been perfect for Stu, the amiable, henpecked dentist; but Ed Helms, Carell's cohort on The Daily Show and The Office, costs so much less. Now for Alan, the roly-poly cute guy with a surfeit...