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...that's just Hollywood whimsy - the button wouldn't be in serious trouble today without the pernicious crusade of Steve Jobs. The new iPod Shuffle is just the latest salvo in an ongoing battle, dating back to Apple's early days. For nearly a decade, Apple's mouse famously included just a single button (right-clicking be damned!). After years of complaints from users, Apple released a new "Mighty Mouse" in 2005 that still featured just a single button, although the design incorporated technology that allowed the mouse to detect clicks in different directions. This was deemed more acceptable...
Waiting for Obama The ferment in the Muslim world has a range of implications for President Barack Obama's outreach to Islam. Gallup polls in Islamic societies show that large majorities both reject militants and have serious reservations about the West. "They're saying, 'There's a plague on both your houses,'" says Richard Burkholder Jr., director of Gallup's international polls. Many young Muslims are angry at the outside world's support of corrupt and autocratic regimes despite pledges to push for democracy after 9/11. "Most of the young feel the West betrayed its promises," says Dhillon...
...first day of sixth grade and you'll hear her leading the students in an enthusiastic chorus of "Penis! Penis! Penis! Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!" "Until they can use the real names for their body parts without giggling," she explains, "you can't talk to them about anything serious." The attractive 27-year-old with straight blond hair is one of those rare souls who not only tolerate middle schoolers but also enjoy them in all their overcaffeinated, hormone-addled, hyperkinetic glory...
...since abounded from Mohamed’s court case, in which a High Court decree to release information regarding torture allegations was denied by the British Foreign Office. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s justification for the refusal was that disclosure would do “serious and lasting harm”, to the United Kingdom’s intelligence exchange with...
...legislation] was really this sort of thing that we were given that we had to modify,” said Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor David A. Haig, who added he would have preferred to see a distribution requirement. “I thought there was never any real serious bit of philosophical discussions of the pros and cons of different forms of general education...