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...complain that the iPhone's touchscreen is a little too slick and imprecise - of the three devices, I tend to make the most typos with the iPhone - at least it's fast. And while the G1's mini, Chiclet-size keys seem designed for Lilliputians, they are accurate and respond even when pressed with the edge of a fingernail. The Storm's click screen, on the other hand, demands the strength of your entire thumb. What's more, the screen jiggles in the phone's casing when you press on it, which makes it feel cheap. (See pictures...
...more bathrooms and introducing rules that allow for greater use of the outdoor area. Construction is also under way on several new centers to try to ease the burden. Still, Giorgos Karamalis, the head of the government's Civil Protection operations in Mytilene, concedes that he is struggling to respond to the flood of arrivals. Karamalis says he regularly stuffs the two-story detention center to more than double its 350-person capacity, or tries - often in vain - to rent hotel rooms for detainees. "We have reports of hundreds of thousands on Turkish shores waiting to cross over," he says...
...realized it was basically a contest in mediocrity—teams compete to guess the most frequent responses to inane questions previously posed to 100 average Americans. For example, if asked “What’s a cure for the hiccups,” teams try to respond not with the most accurate or effective answer, but the one most common answer, which in this case is “Scare the person.” A group of Harvard kids are not indicative of home-spun average responses—I knew we were probably screwed...
...Democratic Congress and we've got a Democratic President. Beyond that, I don't think there really are any parallels. We've got a whole different set of concerns in America, a lot of anxiety in America, and we as a political party have to learn to respond to that in a way that makes us an acceptable alternative...
TIME: Some in the National Review and in other places have called you a caretaker in the role of Republican leader. How do you respond to that? Boehner: Oh, there's been a lot said over the last two weeks. Clearly, we've been through two very difficult cycles. If I thought that I was to blame for what happened over those last two cycles, I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have run. I think we did our best considering the cards that we were dealt. And I believe that the cards that will be dealt...