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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...phone for only two weeks when this happened. Had this feature been available then, instead of resorting to recriminations and finger-pointing, you could have simply gone to your computer, issued a command and voila! - the missing phone would start beeping. (Even if the sound had been turned off. And it's an obnoxious beep too, like the ping of sonar.) But wait, there's more! The iPhone will also show up on a Google map. If your phone has been stolen, you can now remotely wipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Unveils the New iPhone: Hail, O Great One | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...with burned-out carcasses of vehicles and disrupted by crumbled bridges. One infamous stretch is lined with the wreckage of 40 transport trucks, the remains of a 90-minute enemy ambush dubbed the "jingle-truck massacre." (Afghans hang chains and coins from their truck bumpers, which create a jingling sound.) Every few miles, craters of varying size pock the pavement, interspersed with suspicious patches of dirt that compel patrol convoys to make off-road detours or dismount to investigate before proceeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roadside Bombs: An Iraqi Tactic on the Upsurge in Afghanistan | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...years, Wayne Allwine, 62, was the voice of Mickey Mouse. He wasn't the first to squeak Mickey's lines (Walt Disney was) or the second (that was sound-effects wizard Jimmy MacDonald). But Allwine made history in 1991 by marrying his counterpart, Russi Taylor, who still voices Minnie Mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...daily sound bites, visit time.com/quotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Stand-up paddle surfing may sound like a scene from a screwball comedy, but no one's laughing in a sports and fitness industry that has hit the recession skids as hard as any other business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's SUP? A Surf Sport That Needs No Ocean | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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