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...sales help because mobiles are essentially a commodity now, Farrell says. Typical kiosk buyers "know what they want, come in and get it and go." Foreign travelers are another potential market. If Vodafone rolls out the machines across the U.K. and the rest of Europe, it'll likely target train stations and airports. But we've all been burned by machines that take and keep our money but fail to vend. Won't consumers be wary? Actually, Crowley insists, they can buy with more confidence. The network connection monitors the machines around the clock. It knows if a product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vendor Benders | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...from Stanford's Greely and other legal experts and scientists exploring the ethics of lie detection. The authors are not expected to smile unreservedly on the science or on the way they believe it may already be in use--perhaps, according to some reports, in Iraq. Frank has helped train people in facial analysis, but he will say only that some of them have been sent to work in "regions of interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Liar | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...best chicken I've ever eaten"; "tomatoes so fresh and tomato-y that they taste like a pure idea of tomato, not the thing itself"; "delish corn"; "a peach poached, perfumed so beautifully it seems to be solid, liquid, gas at once." After I paid, I took the train back to Manhattan. I was still wearing Barber's clothes and was now filled with his food. I'm not sure I was "impregnated with nutrient density," as he had promised, but I was heady with his agrarian dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm-to-Table Fetish | 8/15/2006 | See Source »

...trying to save fish by coaxing fishermen into other professions. After years of political wrangling, the European Commission agreed last month on a €3.8 billion, seven-year program to help fishermen shift into other industries. E.U. funds currently help fishermen retire at 55 and pay to train them for new careers in tourism. Whatever the economic incentives to change their ways, in many small towns there is a sense of a way of life passing away - often yielding to an easier, more lucrative modern existence. In Garrucha, old men fish; their sons do not. "There are other options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mediterranean's Tuna Wars | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...TIME: Do you have assistants? And if so, do you have to train them in your style of drawing and inking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something About Shojo | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

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