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...Dumai and the city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires that eclipse the midday sun and loses focus after miles of palm oil and rubber plantations. The only constant is a Caltex pipeline, gray and monotonous, elevated just high enough so that families have to climb either under or over it to reach their homes from the road. It's just another reminder that the land's riches are going somewhere else...
...Sinar himself has always been comfortable, Sultan or not. He inherited a palm oil plantation and he teaches history and ethnomusicology. His life, he says, goes from "one seminar to the next." As a tengku, he blesses a ceremony here or there and performs the local equivalent of supermarket openings. Neighbors come to him for advice, interactions he enjoys though "it's hard if they arrive when I'm having a siesta." In his living room, above the couch, is a picture of his father in full regalia. He is stunning, all sashes and ribbons. Sinar, sitting in a high...
...rest of the world in the geopolitical and economic race, and yet Earth is choking on our exhaust. The American consumer is ready for this. After all, you're sending us all a check for $300 - why not give us something more inspiring to spend it on than a Palm Pilot...
...first such gizmo with global capability, working in most cities throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. The device comes with a GSM-based phone, Web browser, e-mail and a plethora of PDA features. Samsung's SPH-I300 ($500), also due out in August, sports a Palm OS with color screen and stylus. It's nearly as light as and more user-friendly than the Accompli, but its CDMA-based cell phone works only...
...WONDER Move over, Palm, there's a new boy in town. It's called Cyberboy, and it's the e-gadget to end all e-gadgets. For $349 you get a full-fledged PDA with a built-in digital camera, a webcam, an MP3 player, an FM radio and a voice recorder--all in a case the size of a cigar box. Cyberboy is made in Taiwan, but it will be available in the U.S. within the month. For more information, check out www.cmcia.com...