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...access to all the things that come with it--e-mail and instant messaging, news from the New York Times or ABC, detailed driving directions from MapQuest, even remote access to eBay auctions. And little doesn't mean less. Cell phones rely on a software standard called Wireless Application Protocol, which custom fits Web content onto those cramped little displays. Palm Inc., for its part, uses its own Web "clipping" technology to pull information onto its PDAs...
...industry is also banking heavily on another form of wireless--short-range-radio technology, the basis for its new Bluetooth protocol (named for a 10th century king who unified Denmark). Bluetooth, whose first stages will be rolled out this summer by a consortium of industry titans including Nokia, Ericsson, IBM and 3Com, will eventually let all your devices talk to each other and work together. Click on a name in your Bluetooth-enabled PDA, and it will find your cell phone (even if it's still in your briefcase) and place the call. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled earphone...
...fears about thalidomide," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Given its history, many patients have understandable concerns over short- and long-term side effects of the drug." Doctors who use thalidomide to combat cancer, AIDS or leprosy can help alleviate some of this anxiety by following a strict protocol, says Dr. Smith. "Only patients who are not pregnant and who do not plan to become pregnant should be prescribed thalidomide," he says. Physicians also tend to reserve the drug for patients who do not respond to other treatments - a measure of caution that bears eloquent testimony to the shadow...
...responsibility to get off that field, move to Washington, and campaign without pause for the less-than-sunny personality of Al Gore '69. Republican or Democrat, libertarian or Independent: it doesn't matter. Only Gore can convince those reactionary corporate pawns in the Senate to ratify the prudent Kyoto Protocol. Only Gore has written a book--a whole book!--on the subject, refreshingly entitled Earth in the Balance. Only Gore, therefore, can save civilization from the preeminent crisis now facing it, climactic Armageddon precipitated by human-driven global warming...
...starters, the Kyoto protocol on global warming is awaiting ratification. Browner made an astute observation that one of the main difficulties experienced by the Clinton administration in ratifying the Kyoto protocol is the inadequate coverage of interests represented by developing countries. If China, India, Brazil and most of Africa still consider national action plans for mitigating global warming as an unaffordable luxury in the context of a lopsided global trade and development establishment, then substantial environmental peddling remains to be done by the U.S. Unfortunately, the U.S.-sponsored Country Studies Program, the highly successful multi-agency program dedicated to assist...