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...Suwanjindar, product manager for Microsoft's mobile division. Unlike the Palms, which won devotees for their elegant simplicity, Pocket PCs have been criticized for trying to cram in too many features. Such luxuries as a built-in MP3 player and high-resolution color screens have resulted in heavier, pricier offerings that start at $350--vs. $150 for an entry-level Palm...
...hearing aids work is far more important than how they look. Traditional analog aids are technologically the simplest--and the least expensive. They enable the user to adjust the volume of incoming sounds. The newer, programmable analog aids are pricier, but they can be digitally programmed--and reprogrammed as hearing loss progresses--to accommodate individual patterns of hearing loss as well as different listening environments. Fully digital aids offer the greatest flexibility and precision. But the more expensive digitals are not necessarily better for everyone. "Digital aids have gotten a lot of press, but there's little hard research that...
MOVE IT The 1997 tax law allows individuals who sell their principal home to gain up to $250,000 (twice that for couples) tax free every two years. Instead of trading up to pricier homes, many boomers now warming empty nests can move into less expensive abodes without a tax penalty. That's one reason for the probable record sales of condominiums in 2000. Another: their Gen-X kids who have flown the coop are starting to buy places of their...
...most of the undervotes come from Gore-majority areas? Basically, yes. Of the 42,000 undervotes yet to be examined, more than 35,000 come from the 25 punch-card counties. Punch-card machines are less reliable than the pricier voting technology used in more Republican areas. Brevard County, for instance, which went 53 percent to 45 percent for Bush, uses optical scanners. "There are no dimples, crimples, pimples or anything else to interpret," says election supervisor Fred Galey. That's good for him but - if the hand count resumes - bad for Bush, since Brevard's 277 undervoted ballots probably...
...execs have been ordering extra episodes of shows like "Law & Order," to be aired next fall in the event of a strike. Before its contract expires on May 1, the Writers Guild of America West, led by writer-producer John Wells ("ER," "The West Wing"), is likely to demand pricier formulas for residuals from U.S. TV shows sold in foreign markets and syndicated on cable, as well as an end to the "possessory" credits routinely given to movie directors and producers ("A Martin Scorsese Picture," "A Jerry Bruckheimer Production") but rarely to writers. Most observers think that the possessory credit...