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...purely dissuasive tool, then, Mail Goggles works as advertised. Of course, there's still the text message, the Facebook message and the good old-fashioned drunken phone call. There are plenty of ways to humiliate yourself if you try. And for those determined to reveal their true feelings via e-mail, the company that brought you Mail Goggles helpfully provides a way around it as well: the Google calculator...
Where PC makers wallow in confusion - some laptops include multiple types of mouse (touch pads and pointers), for instance - Apple has found a moment of Zen. The new MacBook has eliminated its single-button mouse altogether; every interaction now occurs via a glass touch pad. To select something, you simply push down on the glass pad. Or as Jobs said, "The whole trackpad is the button." This generation of touch pads, by the way, lets users do a lot more with one hand. One finger directs the mouse, two fingers enlarge and reduce images, three fingers allow you to rapidly...
Will the European plans work? There is one hopeful precedent, in Sweden, which in the early 1990s solved its own banking crisis by guaranteeing deposits, injecting huge amounts of liquidity into the banking system via the central bank, and forcing banks to write down the value of their assets very quickly. In describing why that bailout worked, Urban Baeckstroem, the former Swedish central bank president who played a central role in the rescue, has identified some other vital measures. The first is that the Swedish government quickly moved to clean up government finances at the same time as it bailed...
...team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital recently developed a therapy to suppress brain tumor growth by using a cancer-killing gene delivered via a virus vector to cells surrounding the tumor. Testing their treatment on mice, they said, yielded “spectacular” results...
...interviews were conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Oct. 3-6, 2008. The Indiana and North Carolina polls have an error margin of 4 percentage points among likely voters. The New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin surveys have an error margin of 3.5 points...