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...this market, the most unobtrusive operating system wins, and the feature-heavy heft that won the desktop wars for Microsoft becomes a liability. "Most of these devices have no need for a Windows experience," says Dan Kuznetsky, a system-software analyst at technology firm IDC. "Who needs a week-long training class to learn how to use a Web cell phone...
Beautiful as Yellowstone National Park is, it's hard to imagine how Native Americans and early settlers ever survived in the rugged terrain around it. That's the mystery visitors are invited to solve during Rhodes Goes West, a week-long adventure held at the Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition in Dubois, Wyo., the first in which the center and RHODES COLLEGE, in Memphis, Tenn., have been co-hosts...
...some 25 families who attend one of the six week-long programs, Heider and local naturalists lead geology and ecology hikes around the island's Acadia National Park, the only national park in New England. On participants' free half-days, Heider and staff guide them to remote places on the island. "They know all the nooks and crannies," says Marsha. "What's nice is that when you get to some of the beaches they know about, no one else is there." Each week offers a boat excursion on the ocean to observe humpback whales and a trip to the mainland...
That changed last Tuesday when a Canadian court charged McSorley with assault with a weapon. The accusation followed a week-long investigation by Vancouver police, and formally moved the attack from the jurisdiction of professional sports into the realm of criminal justice. The necessity of this action is questionable; McSorley's suspension has already cost him $72,000, and it is unlikely he will ever play hockey professionally again. He has expressed his regrets and has apologized profusely. Furthermore, Brashear will most likely follow up with a civil suit of his own. So is a jail term really necessary...
...part, Couric, starting March 6, will be host of a week-long series about the disease on the Today show. In what must be a television first, she will broadcast footage of her own intestine, taken during a recent colon exam. (She's fine.) Couric has also joined longtime friend and cancer activist Lilly Tartikoff (whose husband Brandon died of Hodgkin's disease in 1997) and Hollywood fund raiser Lisa Paulsen (who specializes in connecting celebrities to worthy causes; see following story) to finance a public-education campaign and urge more aggressive research into colon cancer...