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...Motorola Q is fairly similar to high-powered consumer phones in other parts of the world. (It looks like a Palm Treo that's been flattened with a rolling pin.) But the Q brings the first-ever pairing of Microsoft's Smartphone operating system - which comes with Outlook and Pocket MSN, including Hotmail and messaging, built in - with a QWERTY keyboard that makes text messaging a lot easier...
...several minutes and is hardly worth the bother. But nimble-fingered teens churn them out like professional typists, lacing them with abbreviations such as 2moz (tomorrow), bf (boyfriend) and omg (Oh, my God!). At stricter schools, pupils type and send messages during class without removing their phone from their pocket. During the last school holidays, when 16-year-old John was on a phone deal that offered free texting, "I was texting my girlfriend all the time," he says. "I could have told you everything she did every minute...
...oriented, trying to convince the rest of the world that we are a real sport. And we are.” Despite the freedom they allow students, club sports at Harvard do not receive much financial support from the College, leaving teams to rely on fund-raising and student pocket-money to cover expenses. Harvard Red Line receives a small amount of money from the Athletics Department and the Undergraduate Council each year, according to Chen.“We don’t get the funding or the access to facilities that varsity sports do, and that...
...Ethical Tool A burglar's Leatherman in a surgeon's pocket raises many complicated questions
...trend is that some pioneering U.S. corporations, swamped by rising health-care costs, are taking a serious look at medical outsourcing. Blue Ridge Paper Products of Canton, N.C., a manufacturing company, may soon offer employees outsourcing as a health-care option. The carrot? The patient would get to pocket some of the firm's substantial savings...