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...than ever before. The flip side is that buying phone service has never been more complex--a fact borne out by the rising number of billing complaints, which jumped 65% in the first quarter of 2003 compared with the same quarter last year, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Samuel A. Simon, chairman of the Telecommunications Research and Action Center, a consumer advocacy group based in Washington, believes many consumers are irate because they fall for marketing hype and wind up buying more minutes of service than they need. A recent Yankee Group survey of 2,500 mobile-phone users...
...brutality of World War I appalled most who were caught up in it. One British volunteer was Paul Nash, a young painter who before the conflict produced gentle, wispy landscapes that recalled English visionaries like Samuel Palmer. After his appointment as an official war artist, though, Nash abandoned pastoral scenes for shocking indictments of trench warfare. Viewers can marvel at these apocalyptic paintings, along with Nash's more serene vistas from the interwar years and his work from World War II, at the U.K.'s Tate Liverpool until Oct. 19. He has been "too long overlooked," says curator Jemima Montagu...
...like Buddha," explains Tan. Tan is the only Singaporean I know who speaks English with a French accent, a result of his 25-year tenure as the press attach? for the French embassy in Singapore. (Tan was also the first person to translate the works of Samuel Beckett and Romanian Marin Sorescu into Chinese, achievements that earned him the Chevalier de l'Ordre award from France and the Sorescu International Poetry Prize from Romania...
Sources: Franklin Institute Science Museum; American Philosophical Society; Bucks County (Pa.) Historical Society; Experiments and Observations on Electricity, by Benjamin Franklin; The Ingenious Dr. Franklin, edited by Nathan G. Goodman; Benjamin Franklin's Science, by I. Bernard Cohen; "The Myth of the Franklin Stove," by Samuel Edgerton, Early American Life magazine, June 1976; Benjamin Franklin, a Biographical Companion, by Jennifer L. Durham; The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University Press; Benjamin Franklin, by Walter Isaacson
...SENTENCED. Samuel Waksal, 55, former CEO of biotech firm ImClone Systems; to seven years in prison for insider trading and tax evasion; in New York City. Waksal, who pleaded guilty to all charges, was also ordered to pay $3 million in fines. He had tipped off family and friends to sell ImClone shares a day before the company announced that its application to market a cancer drug was rejected. Waksal's friend, American lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who sold her ImClone stock before the announcement, has been charged with securities fraud and obstruction of justice...