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More than 25 million Americans carry simple m-commerce devices like the one Mason uses to buy lunch, according to analyst David Krebs at Venture Development Corp. Most are motorists who whiz through tollbooths daily, paying their way with electronic passes attached behind their windshields. In North America, 6 million now use m-commerce to pay for gas and fast food, and their numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their...
...this time, running not from his family but from the law. Daoudi slipped away from his apartment on the Boulevard John F. Kennedy after police across Europe started to round up the network that Beghal had assembled for his operations. (French investigators think Daoudi was the computer-and-communications whiz kid of the group.) Daoudi knew Britain well. He and Beghal had hung out there with Jerome Courtailler, one of two French brothers who had converted to Islam. For a while, Courtailler lived in south London with Zacarias Moussaoui, another French child of disappointed immigrant parents. Moussaoui grew...
...Admissions Office probably did not spend much time debating David M. Darst ’05. This first-year, Wigglesworth K resident seems like the kind of whiz kid some think go here...
...Othello. The Moor of Venice is now Odin James (Mekhi Phifer), the only black kid in an elite Southern prep school and, gee whiz, a basketball star--a player of great flair, a dark temper and, apparently, no will of his own. Iago is Hugo (Josh Hartnett), the coach's son with a bit of a grudge. Desdemona is Desi (Julia Stiles); Emilia is Emily (Rain Phoenix). As the updated plot is predictably spun out by scripter Brad Kaaya, your response may be a glum "Uh-O." Best to watch the many ovals that Nelson has cleverly worked into...
...have ever drooled over the items in the Hold Everything catalog, restrain yourself. According to Ellen Langan, the $100-an-hour Seattle whiz who streamlined the Unguez bedroom, overly elaborate storage systems are part of the problem. "There are too many choices!" she says. "Going out and buying more plastic bins isn't going to do it for you." Instead kids need to learn to cut back early on, by thinking, for instance: Now that my birthday is coming, which toys will I give away to make room for more...