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...Scanning and printing features allow the child to receive and hand in homework assignments. The pilot project is still being refined. Next step, the creators say, is a robot that can go into the halls too, so that the ailing student can chat with friends between classes. --By Fran Stewart...
...romanticism, his story dwells on the conflict that comes with being a resident outsider: a fear of stepping into the unknown combined with the shame that comes from seeking the comfort of your own kind when you are supposed to be out making friends with the locals. Chris Stewart steps out of the expat ghetto?to his regret?in a passage from A Parrot in the Pepper Tree. In his tale of what happens when an outsider gets between a local man and his woman in Spanish Andalusia, Stewart asks, "What should you wear in bed when you are waiting...
...upon wave of British musicians have found global stardom via the U.S. But not lately; there are currently no British artists in the U.S. Billboard Top 50 singles chart. The Top 100 album chart features a more respectable four British acts - but the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Rod Stewart are not exactly fresh faces. Of the four, only the members of melodic rockers Coldplay are not pushing pension age. Will some of the new seedlings of Brit music grow into the next big thing in the U.S.? They're certainly compelling enough to have a shot. The bright-eyed...
...America is from within. Like Bush and Dido before them, the funk-soul duo known as Floetry are currently almost entirely unknown in their native London, but they're looming large in Philadelphia's neo-soul scene. Both graduates of the Brits Performing Arts School, Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart had a Top 20 album, wrote for Michael Jackson and were nominated for three Grammys. They fuse spoken poetry to a soulful groove, which the pair describe as "poetic delivery with musical intent." Overall, though, pessimism reigns, especially for Ms. Dynamite and the other U.K. urban contenders. Says Jamieson...
...rats (12 to 26 weeks of age), because their developing brains and thinner, smaller skulls are comparable to those of the teenagers for whom phones are a must-have accessory. "Just don't give them to children," says Salford, affirming a message delivered in 2000 by the U.K.'s Stewart Commission on the health effects of mobile phones. So far, however, such warnings have largely been ignored by the young users who send billions of text messages every month and who feed a thriving industry that pitches everything from mobile games to cartoon-themed phone covers to children. Phone makers...