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...that someone." After launching a successful texting service in the U.K., KGB decided to bring it to the U.S. The beta test launched last fall, and already the company has thousands of "agents" ready to provide you with anything from movie times and train schedules to the type of pen Bob Dole holds in his hand. (Answer: sometimes it's felt-tipped, sometimes ballpoint, and occasionally it's a pencil.) (See pictures of the cell phone's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

Writers and nature-lovers gathered to discuss “Nature and the Written Word” yesterday evening at the Barker Center during a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Museum of Natural History and the New England branch of PEN, an organization of writing professionals. Moderated by Tufts English professor Dale Peterson, the conversation featured authors John Elder, Sy Montgomery, and Katy Payne, who talked about the connection to nature portrayed in writing. “Nature writing encompasses robust narrative and well-grounded observations from the science of the natural world,” Elder said. He said...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Writers Discuss Nature Lit. | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...Executive office building, his staff and the press instinctively stood up. Obama was taken off guard. "I'm still getting used to that," he said, after telling everyone to have a seat. Later in the same event, Obama struggled with the practice of using a different pen for every document he signed. "They are very nice pens," the President advised his aides. (See pictures of people around the world watching Obama's inauguration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Team's Debut: Not Quite Ready on Day One | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

What songs were easier for you to pen--the joyous and happy ones, or the more sad-and-lonely songs? Wanda Fenwick LEXINGTON PARK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Smokey Robinson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...Paul Blart, who works the security detail at a West Orange, N.J., mall, doesn't even seem to be internalizing the expected rage. A single dad whose hypoglycemia has disqualified him from the police force, he endures the insults of a pen salesman (Stephen Rannazzisi) and the polite indifference of Amy (Jayma Mays), the cute gal at the hair-extensions booth, without troubling to seethe. He motors around on his Segway - riding it is the one thing at which he's an ace - smiling at Amy, shrugging off the rest of the world. Either Paul is conditioned by decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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