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...around $60, it was also surprisingly low maintenance.) Since then, I've been on the prowl for other mobile PDAs that appeal to people who don't need mobile e-mail, but would go for it provided it wasn't an inconvenience. Nokia's new E62 isn't perfect, but out of the box it has many user-friendly traits for ordinary people - those who haven't been joined at the hip to a BlackBerry, Treo or Windows Mobile device for years...
...poem." That epic is rewritten by each generation but also revised every 11 seconds when a new American enters the population. On the eve of what could be a transformational election, we recently recorded the arrival of the 300 millionth American. The proximity of those two events created the perfect moment to launch what TIME expects will be an annual feature called "America by the Numbers," an illustrated look at who we are as a nation--and where we're going. It is TIME 's first cover story told principally through graphics, and was produced by our superb graphics director...
...ministering to more middle-aged and older patients, mostly women. The condition strikes people across ethnic and economic lines. Says Margo Maine, a psychotherapist and an eating-disorder specialist based in West Hartford, Conn., and a co-author of The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect (Wiley; 2005): "Anorexia is an equal-opportunity disease...
...stable (Pyongyang doesn't publish reliable economic statistics, but most estimates put GDP growth in recent years in the 1%-to-2% range), the North remains dependent on outside food aid. According to the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, conditions could deteriorate quickly. A forthcoming report warns that "a perfect storm may be brewing for a return of the famine." The report notes that Pyongyang last year reintroduced the same public food-distribution system that had collapsed in the 1990s, and rejected assistance from international aid groups. Those problems have been further exacerbated by summer floods that damaged crops...
Meckelson estimates that "75% of our letters deal with relationship issues." The other 25%, he says, focus on issues like business, career and personal debt. The obvious question, of course, is why so many people would ask a perfect, and unseen, stranger for advice on such sensitive matters. Anonymity, for starters, says David M., 20, a college student who found EWC by going to Google and typing in "free advice." David, who prefers to remain anonymous, says overly critical parents are another factor causing young people to look for outside help. "My father has always been pretty tough...