Word: palming
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...Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, and President George W. Bush at their summit in Aqaba, Jordan, last week. So Bush stepped in and did what he does best: he schmoozed. Leaving aides and interpreters behind, the President took the two leaders outside, where they sat under the shade of palm trees for 40 minutes and discussed ways to give a fresh start to the peace process. "I wanted...to observe the interplay between the two," Bush said later. "Did they have the capacity to relax in each other's presence? I felt they did. The body language was positive...
Love your Palm but tired of carrying around (and occasionally dropping) yet another untethered piece of hardware? Now for the first time, somebody has squeezed the Palm operating system into a wristwatch. Fossil's Wrist PDA goes on sale this month for $295 on Amazon.com and it has almost everything you have come to expect from its big brothers, including a USB connection to synch with a PC and an infrared port for wireless data transfer. There's even a backlit screen and a tiny stylus hidden in the band...
...everyone accepts that link. "In theory, tort reform would have an impact on premiums. In reality, that has not been the case," says Martin Weiss, chairman of Weiss Ratings, an independent insurance-rating agency in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. In a study published this week, Weiss Ratings found that in states without caps on noneconomic damages, median annual premiums for standard medical-malpractice coverage rose 36% between 1991 and 2002. But in states with caps, premiums rose even more--48%. In the two groups of states, median 2002 premiums were about the same. Weiss found nine states with flat...
...Vegas, specializes in discount flights to Sin City and has announced three new routes in the past two months: to Lansing, Mich.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Denver. Song, owned by Delta, is just off the ground, flying from New York City's J.F.K. to three points in Florida: West Palm Beach, Tampa and Orlando. Spirit has been around since 1992 and specializes in low fares to 14 destinations. The privately held carrier hasn't divulged financial details but claims it recorded an operating profit for the first quarter...
...early May, scientists from HKU and Shenzhen's Center for Disease Control decided to test animals sold in one large food market in Shenzhen, including house cats, hares, beavers and the Chinese muntjac, a small deer. When they examined sputum, feces and blood of the masked palm civet, they hit pay dirt. All six of the civets tested, according to Professor K.Y. Yuen, head of the microbiology department at HKU, carried huge amounts of a coronavirus strikingly similar to the SARS agent. The scientists sequenced its genome and found the two viruses to be nearly identical. The World Health Organization...