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...Take, for instance, the Today screen. This one is easy to customize to fit your needs, and Palm has inserted a dial-by-name box and two rows of customizable speed dials. Start tapping in the name of a contact, and within seconds you make your call, right from the screen. Sweeter still is the Photo Speed Dial feature: line up the mugs of your beloveds right on the Today screen, to tap at will. There's also a fully customizable button-style speed dial...
...Ogbu Rotterdam, the Netherlands Keep Cool with Trees In "Is Europe Due For A Big Chill?" [Dec. 12], Time mentions that climate experts have some reservations about the effects of global warming on weakening North Atlantic Ocean currents. I am surprised that they have not taken into account the speed of global deforestation. Warmer oceans absorb less atmospheric carbon dioxide, so we depend increasingly on the world's remaining vegetation to filter the air for us. Because vegetation is the only means by which carbon dioxide is converted into life-giving oxygen, we need to start seriously thinking more about...
...disease, bringing the total number of deaths as of late December to 73, and the U.S. is now scrambling to stockpile medicines--such as the antiviral Tamiflu--to thwart a possible pandemic. Bush has asked Congress, as part of his $7.1 billion response plan, for a "crash program" to speed the development of new vaccine technologies, and Congress last month passed a defense bill that included $3.8 billion, mainly for flu vaccines and medicines...
...march swung right into main street for the last 10 blocks to City Hall, a surge pushed the front ranks into an uncomfortable speed, nearly a trot, jostled and patted from behind. Abernathy sensed an overly familiar, hostile edge in the cries of tribute--"We're glad you came to Memphis"--not long before loud pops turned anxious heads to listen for gunshots. Crashes after the bangs signaled instead the unmistakable sound of storefront windows being smashed along Beale and Main streets. Moans went up that something was wrong. Young marauders ran through overmatched marshals to attack storefronts ahead...
...looks like a sparrow in shorts next to the burly 'hatchetmen' who triple-team him ... Best's revenge is 'to make them feel so inferior they'll never want to play football again.' He does it with speed, deception and an uncanny skill for controlling the ball ... After home games, Best mans one of his fleet of sports cars and leads a caravan of 'Best Setters' on boozy all-night rounds of the pubs ... He claims to have dated more than 1,000 eagerly willing 'Georgie girls...