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...about immediacy. You don't need to wait until you get home and turn on the computer. Simply enter a five- or six-digit code into your cell phone, along with a single word in the body of the text, such as "Haiti." You don't even need to plug in your credit-card info - the donation amount is simply added to your next phone bill. It's all so quick and convenient, you can give in the moment. There's no chance of you forgetting to do it later. (See pictures of the Haiti quake's aftermath...
...violence. "A lot depends on the next few days in relation to progress on policing and justice," says Michael Graham, a political-history professor at Queen's University in Belfast. "If Sinn Fein don't feel they're getting very far, I think they're likely to pull the plug." (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...
Poizner, founder of a company that produced the technology to put GPS in cell phones, which he sold for a reported $1 billion, is a confrontational spark plug who seems obsessed with Whitman. "Voters should choose her if they want someone to rebrand the state, and me if they want someone to rebuild it," he likes to say. He is offering his own plan to cut taxes and is presenting himself as the true conservative in the race (although he, like Whitman and Campbell, is socially moderate). If Whitman prevails in the June primary, she will probably face former Democratic...
...discredited GM slogan for one of its former car brands insisted that this wasn't your father's Oldsmobile. Shortly thereafter, GM pulled the plug on Olds...
...offense was equally prolific. The Crimson scored a season-high 46 points in the first half due to 11 three-pointers and 60.9 percent shooting from the field. The spark plug for much of the night was sophomore guard Oliver McNally who tallied a career-high nine assists to go with zero turnovers on the game...