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...shopping sites visited by Internet users in the lowest income groups include sites that trade in exotic cars, expensive apparel brands and high-end electronics. Perhaps these searches are aspirational. But what about what is considered by most to be a necessity today - a simple, basic cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Bargains Online | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...also a town of spooks. Whether huddled over tiny glasses of Arabica in luxury hotel foyers or the anonymous place with battered tables and a concrete floor on the north end of Meskel Square, quiet men in dusty suits swap intelligence. There you'll overhear mobile-phone conversations that begin like this: "Ambassador! Of course I'll give the document back ... " Or you might meet close-cropped, burly Americans carrying khaki rucksacks labeled "U.S." who mumble about going "someplace in country." As Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi observes, "The Horn of Africa is a very volatile area. There are many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Horn of Dilemma | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...recalls have triggered a wave of phone calls from other worried parents and pediatricians, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But whether more kids actually have elevated blood levels of lead won't be known until October at the earliest, when the CDC updates its quarterly data. High levels of lead interfere with the development of a child's nervous system. Lead can cause cognitive losses, learning disabilities, behavioral problems, delayed growth and seizures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Lead Lurks in Your Nursery | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...time of the businessman's disappearance. (Bala has denied knowing him.) They also noted similarities between the character Chris in the novel, and the author, who also goes by that nickname while traveling abroad and in email communications. In addition, police traced the sale of the victim's mobile phone on an Internet auction site four days after his disappearance to an account registered to Bala. And they said that a phone card was used to place calls to the victim on the morning of his disappearance as well as to Bala's girlfriend and parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polish Murder Stranger Than Fiction | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...Noriega's Fort Lauderdale-based attorney, told TIME that his client informed him yesterday about the expedited plans. "We got a phone call from the General," May says. "He received a piece of paper saying he is going to be moved. We don't know where. We fully expect there will be an airplane waiting to take him to France in the middle of the night or Friday morning. Very sneaky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast-Tracking Noriega's Exit? | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

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