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Mobile-phone texting has evolved into an essential form of communication?a brief e-mail on the run. But for those who find texting cumbersome, a quicker solution has arrived. Woburn, Massachusetts-based VoiceSignal has created VoiceMode, which allows mobile-phone users "to say it, see it and send...
Mobile-phone texting has evolved into an essential form of communication - a brief e-mail on the run. But for those who find texting cumbersome, a quicker solution[an error occurred while processing this directive] has arrived. Woburn, Massachusetts-based VoiceSignal has created VoiceMode, which allows mobile-phone users "to say it, see it and send it." It takes approximately one minute and 75 taps of tiny keys to create and send this text message: "Leave tix at box office - running late." Dictate the same text with a VoiceMode-enabled phone in seconds...
...teaching can require more work outside of the lecture hall than teaching solo.Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology William D. Fixsen, who started out on a team and has co-taught Biological Sciences 50, “Genetics and Genomics,” acknowledges that “it is quicker and easier to do it on your own,” but team teaching is not without its time benefits. “When you do it solo, you have full autonomy and full control but you also have full responsibility, and you can’t afford...
...Still, Benedict has already allowed for a major shortcut to "St. John Paul," having waved the normal five-year waiting period after death for the opening of the beatification process. John Paul had done the same with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was beatified quicker than anyone before, just six years after her 1997 death. The quickest to get all the way to sainthood under current procedures was Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, who died in 1975, and was canonized...
...appears to be premised on a fanciful notion of what will follow if it succeeds. Wolfensohn's warnings foresee a long siege, which he says would leave three quarters of the Palestinian population living in poverty within two years. But Washington may be banking on a quicker result: By putting the squeeze on ordinary Palestinians and forcing a breakdown in governance, some Israeli and U.S. officials may be hoping that President Mahmoud Abbas would be able within a few months to dissolve the Palestinian government and call new elections - as he last week reminded everyone that he has the authority...