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...focus on it). A built-in compass supplements the onboard GPS, so now you'll be able to see not only where you are on a map but also which direction you're facing. Voice commands, cut-and-paste options and a battery that will last 20%-30% longer round out the new product...
...whom doctors delivered five weeks early to spare him an additional round of chemotherapy, is now in fifth grade and is "just a regular boy" who plays football and in-line hockey and has a yen for adventure novels, says his mom, who just celebrated her 10th year cancer-free...
...significant against Sarkozy's modest 43% approval rating, as well as polls indicating the public continues to frown on how he and his government have responded to the global financial crisis. Despite all that, ruling conservatives came within four points of Sarkozy's commanding 31.1% score during the first round of French presidential polling in 2007. "The penalty vote was penalized by French voters," quipped UMP secretary-general Xavier Bertrand...
...million Somalis are refugees. Two million need food. For most of these, malnutrition rates are beyond the U.N. threshold definition of an emergency. Around 400,000 refugees are in a single sprawling camp at Afgooye outside Mogadishu; 70,000 have arrived in the last month after fleeing the latest round of fighting in the capital. A further 275,000 have fled south to Kenya and live in three camps at Dadaab in the north of the country originally meant for 90,000; the U.N. High Commission for Refugees says 7,000 more Somalis also arrive there each month...
...Somalia would seem to be another case in point. After 18 years of war between rival clans, warlords and Islamists, the latest round in this Byzantine bloodbath pitches the Islamist government against marginally more extreme Islamist rebels to whom it was allied until last year. Not that the terms government and rebel really apply to Somalia. Both groups control little more than a few blocks of Mogadishu and a handful of small towns, and neither has much function - or often, it seems, ambition - aside from fighting the other. (Read: "In Somalia, Another Government Teetering...