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MIAMI The sun-obsessed can take their work to the beach, thanks to the built-in e-mail of the Palm Treo 755p...
...Number of U.S. congregations using environmentally friendly "eco-palms" in their Palm Sunday services. Traditional palm-harvesting wastes more than 50% of the fronds...
Time may be the most limiting factor. Under DNC rules, all primary results must be completed by June 10. Given that Florida has little experience with a mail-in primary, that could prove difficult, said Randy Nielson, a Palm Beach consultant for many statewide Republican causes. "Based on what we've seen so far this year in their convoluted nomination process, I think the DNC would have trouble organizing a one-car funeral procession let alone a statewide primary redo involving over 4.1 million voters," Nielson told TIME...
Whipping out an unwieldy pocket dictionary midconversation is often embarrassing, but in a place as linguistically complex as China, an English-Chinese dictionary can be indispensable. One solution is PlecoDict, a program for Palm devices and Pocket PCs that includes up to five dictionaries. You can find words by searching in English or in Chinese--by romanized spelling or character. The software also includes a flash-card program, so you can learn new words while you're stuck in Beijing traffic...
...Saturday and nearly noon in Bidor, Malaysia, a small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers...