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Sonim XP1 If you want a cell phone that can double as a mallet, pick up the $500 Sonim XP1. Coated in a layer of hardened rubber, this shockproof phone will keep on ringing even after a 5.4-ft. (1.65 m) drop onto concrete. That tough casing also keeps out dust, sand and water - perfect for when your speedboat runs aground on a desert island. www.sonimtech.com...
...adopts new technology. It is going to get less expensive with time, and if you are not ready to do it now, then it's best that you wait. Not everybody bought an iPhone when it first came out. If you wait, the prices on the technology do drop...
...daughter crossed most of the boundaries set up by racial discrimination. Sailing on ''every ship of the French Line,'' they mingled offstage with the celebrities Lena had enchanted onstage in London and Paris --the Laurence Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried, unsuccessfully, to go further. Lena and Gail...
...opening bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 45.75 points, to 1840.15, the worst one-day decline in history. Trading veterans, by now used to the spectacular gyrations of the ) continuing bull market, were relatively unfazed. For one thing, the drop represented only 2.43% of the Dow's value, a far cry from catastrophe. Sure enough, the plunge soon halted, and on Friday the Dow stormed back 36.06 points--its eighth-best day ever--to close the week at 1874.19. What really jolted the nerves of Wall Streeters, though...
...downward spiral has stopped.'' So said Sally McElwreath, a Trans World Airlines official, as she described faint but encouraging signs last week that the dramatic drop in U.S. tourist travel to Europe had at last bottomed out. Most airlines were reticent about releasing figures, but British Airways reported that bookings, down to a mere 5,000 a week after the U.S. air attack on Libya in April, had risen to more than 60,000, just 3,000 short of the figure for the same week last year. Pan Am's reservations have been increasing 8% to 10% a week...