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It's March 2003, a few days before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and the inhabitants of a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan are anxious to know when the Americans are coming. They pool all of their radios together to trade for a satellite dish and ask a teenage...
...some people shy? It may be that they see the world--or at least faces--differently. Italian researchers recruited 49 shy third- and fourth-graders and asked them to identify emotion in the facial expressions of other children in a video-game format. The shyest kids had difficulty identifying expressions that were either hostile or neutral. Joy, on the other hand, was almost never misread...
Outside the developing world, crises like global warming that demand a worldwide response are not getting the attention or action they deserve. The tsunami highlighted how many people, particularly in the third world, live in low-lying areas near the ocean. The rise in sea levels caused by global warming threatens to flood these low-lying areas around the world permanently, causing massive dislocations of people and unimaginable loss of property. And that is just one of the dire consequences of global warming. In the long run, the gradual heating of the planet will change weather patterns and increase mortality...
...Chase on Saturday Night Live, Murray made a name for himself with affectionate renderings of sleazeball characters like Nick, the world's ickiest lounge singer. (His greatest hit was a rendition of the Star Wars theme: "Starrrr Wars! Nothing but Starrrr Wars! Gimme those Starrrr Wars! Don't let them end!") And, as usual, he took it upon himself to stand up for the rest of the cast. When Chase returned to be host of the show in its third season, Murray decked him when tension between Chase and regular cast members came to a head. "Chevy had talent," Murray...
...Booth Thomas Samsung's a no-Show Mobile phones rang a merry tune this Christmas - especially stylish varieties like NEC's "clamshell," Britain's top seller. Good looks and funky features helped South Korea's Samsung Electronics grab 13.8% of the global market in the third quarter of 2004, ousting Motorola as the world's No. 2 behind Nokia. But Samsung doesn't want to show off about it. The company announced that, for fear of copycats, it will no longer demonstrate its cutting-edge handsets at trade shows like the CeBIT fair in Hanover in March. Samsung values "protecting...