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Each carrier's system is different, and there's no operability between them. In our tests, Nextel's Direct Connect started up more quickly and relayed messages faster than the two newcomers. Though measured in split seconds, the lags between bursts of talk can make a conversation feel painfully slow. Nextel's 10 push-to-talk phones include a BlackBerry PDA ($350) and the new Motorola i730 ($300), which is chunky but sports a 65,000-color screen and a great-sounding speakerphone...
...border-management agency, due to start advising and funding cooperative efforts in 2005. For the near future, the stick of common policing is bound to be more central to Europe's immigration policy than the carrot of legal quotas. "We want third countries to help us slow the tide," says an E.U. official. "But we don't have much to give them in exchange." The slim number of immigrants European countries are willing to admit they need still doesn't approach the number of those willing to risk life and limb to get to Europe. On the Italian island...
...Ronald Isley's standards album - Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach - succeeds for the very reason Stewart's and Moore's fail. Rather than fit his classic R.-and-B. voice into the dull formalism of Burt Bacharach's songs, Isley spirits away the songwriter's greatest hits to slow-jam land. On Close to You, he plays endlessly with single words like "why" and "close," seducing them until he decides they have had enough. His quasi-religious version of Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head is the album's signature triumph. It's not just that Isley invents powerful...
First, there was light. Then, Harvard scientists developed a technique to slow light down. Next, they figured out how to store light for short periods of time. Now, they have stopped light altogether and are attempting to “control?...
...Brian M. Byrne, The Crimson’s 22-year veteran press operator told us. The boneheads he alluded to were the FM editors who had retired in December. An unfavorable comparison to their organizational skill was a much needed wake up call. We were still slow sometimes, but we felt considerably worse about it. So it was no surprise to discover this week that both George D. Dioguardi, the plate maker, and Byrne have daughters who are close to college-age. This explains the comforting mixture of paternal concern and disappointment in us that we can sense from them...