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...Drug promotion can still continue, but without the bribery," says Dr. Bob Goodman, 43, a New York City internist who in 1999 founded NoFreeLunch.org to raise awareness of the effect that drug promotion has on doctors' prescriptions. Goodman's group has even launched an assault on the ubiquitous ballpoint pens bearing drug logos; doctors are urged to trade in branded pens for ones that say no free lunch. (The old pens go to charity...
...espionage game once spawned plenty of cool spy gear, like poison-tipped umbrellas and recording devices disguised as ballpoint pens. But it's all getting so low-rent. Corporate spies are now using ordinary cell phones as cheap eavesdropping devices. Phones switched to idle and silent mode and set to answer calls automatically can be "accidentally" left behind in an office?when a spook excuses himself from a meeting to use the bathroom, for example?and activated remotely from another handset, allowing the user to listen in without the occupants' knowledge. The scam is more cunning than it sounds...
Others drawings reveal the terror of living with an abusive father. Sabita, age 13, submitted an impressively detailed drawing that captured the sadness, pain and injustice of her situation. Done entirely in ballpoint pen and green, pink, yellow and blue markers, it depicts an infuriated father dragging a tearful mother to some unknown and horrifying place. “My father would beat my mother even more when she was pregnant,” Sabita wrote...
...Beautiful Mind December 21, Limited Release Russell Crowe, Hollywood womanizer and enemy of adoring fans everywhere, comes back in yet another massive starring role. This time, rather than donning battle armor or a gray wig, Crowe picks up a ballpoint and a serious case of geeky neurosis to fill the shoes of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a math prodigy who, after a ground-breaking discovery early in his career, developed a process known as game theory and won the Nobel Prize after years of battling with schizophrenia. With Mr. Hit-and-Miss Ron Howard directing, the craftsman of trash like...
...invited to test the first Chatpen, developed in-house by Anoto. As writing instruments go, this one weighs no more than your average Mont Blanc and is about as long. But it's twice as thick: the infrared camera, which peeks out from under the nib of a basic ballpoint, seems to take up a lot of room. Most folks would find this pen too fat for comfortable writing. Wiebe assures me this is only a prototype, and the final product will be practically indistinguishable from an ordinary...