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...campaign aims to promote energy and climate issues by encouraging voters to focus on a platform that supports clean energy, green jobs, and cutting dependence on foreign oil. The pledge also commits voters to holding their representatives accountable to the platform once in office, with prepared instructions for lobbying, phone-banking, and organizing like-minded voters...
Imagine sitting down in a theater, popcorn in hand. The lights dim, Kung-Fu Panda reminds you to silence your cell phone, and the previews start. But instead of the new Saw flick, a trailer for Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons...
BlackBerry Clams Up. It's finally here: BlackBerry's first clamshell phone. The Pearl Flip 8220, which costs about $150, is available from T-Mobile. It's about the same size as the original BlackBerry Pearl but bigger than other flip phones, and like other BlackBerrys it has integrated access for corporate e-mail, a Web browser, document-editing capabilities and a camera. It doesn't have 3G connectivity, but it's Wi-Fi enabled...
Translation Tool. Struggling with a phrasebook and your clumsy pronunciation is so old school. You can now cross the language barrier with Lonely Planet's audio phrasebooks for mobile phones. Local linguists have recorded 600 phrases - "Do you have a room?" or "Can you recommend a bar?" - in 10 languages (Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Thai and Czech, with more promised soon). You simply play them through your phone's speakers. You can download the app onto iPhones (go to the App Store), BlackBerrys and any cell phone running the Java midp 2.0 platform or Windows Mobile...
...Rooney-Mahoney debate is scheduled for Oct. 24, but the campaign did not return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay...