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...Rachel's first breathless call was to her grandparents. "Guess what, I have my own cell phone," exclaimed the cutting-edge fourth-grader through her shiny, tricked-out handset. The perplexed, interstate scowls at other end of the line were easy to envision. "Why do you need that?" retorted her disapproving elders virtually in unison. My nine-year-old didn't have an immediate answer, but instinctively and ineffably, she knew she had arrived...
...Kajeet, the Bethesda, Maryland start-up that provided Rachel with the Nokia 6165i as one of 3,000 volunteer "beta testers" for a new service aimed at kids, developed in large part from input by kids. But it will have to sell the idea that children can handle it to the potential buyers, their parents. "We think kids are smart," said Kajeet's cofounder and CEO Daniel Neal. "Our entire philosophy springs from this one core idea. We want our kids to be agile with technology and we want to help them respond with confidence to what's happening...
...wonder after reading “Arlington Park” whether the author, Rachel Cusk, is a penetrating analyst of human psychology—or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which everyday characters in an everyday setting hint at being deeply symbolic—though it’s difficult to discern what they’re supposed to symbolize.“Arlington Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates...
...Staff writer Alexandra Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...Christian B. Flow and Rachel L. Pollack contributed to the reporting of this story...