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...Christmas season. Consumer groups in Germany and Belgium warned that the batteries in some of Nokia's most popular phones can short-circuit, overheat and even blow up. The announcement, made after extensive testing by Belgium 's Test-Aankoop association, set off a storm; consumers flooded the group's switchboard reporting their own mobile problems. The firm insists its batteries are safe and says many that the Belgians tested were counterfeit. Consumer groups say it's impossible to tell the difference between real and fake batteries, but they've agreed to further tests. Compounding the firm's woes, hackers cracked...
When the New York Times's Jayson Blair was busted for plagiarism and fabrications--and then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...
...TIME.com's own informal survey revealed, if nothing else, very busy phone lines: Wednesday afternoon, getting through to the main White House switchboard proved impossible. Calls to the offices of New York senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton were also greeted with a busy signal. The Associated Press reports Sen. Richard Durbin's office received 800 calls in a four-hour span Wednesday, or about twice as many as usual...
Fisher-Price All Terrain Switchboard...
...cool attitude and reckless nonchalance is integral to the sport's ethos. In Nagano snowboarders were the cutups of the earnest Olympic set, cracking jokes and busting up hotel lobbies (one was tossed out of the Games for damaging a hotel switchboard while playing soccer with a beer...