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Those are the Storm's only pluses. Adventurous users can find and download thousands of BlackBerry applications from independent sites like Handango, but the built-in Application Center on the Storm comes with just eight add-on apps for you to install, including Flickr, Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger. That's a sore disappointment compared with the thousands of iTunes apps you can click to right from your iPhone and the hundreds of Android Market apps available for the G1. There's no built-in music store on the Storm either, although a deal with Rhapsody is in the works...
...Trade. During the election campaign, Obama, needing the support of labor unions and working-class voters, vowed a dramatic retreat from America's free-trade agenda. He opposes the U.S. - South Korea trade deal and promised "a change from the U.S. policy approach [toward China] of the past eight years," including possible new restrictions on Chinese imports. The deteriorating American economy and job picture will make it nearly impossible for Obama to shift and become a free trader. Yet a regionwide free-trade area will eventually be Asia's future. Obama needs to embrace that, while simultaneously investing in American...
...ugly [Nov. 10]. With much of the world and many staunch conservatives all endorsing Obama, how do they call him a socialist with a straight face? It shows how little faith they have in the strength of their own ideals and the credibility of their own party after eight years of Bush. This smacks of desperation and deceit. Fred Grygiel, Sea Girt...
...best interest of wealth to be, in part, spread. It is, after all, not money but the movement of money that produces more money. Deeper pockets across the country mean more that can be spent by consumers. In any case, during the past eight years we have been redistributing wealth - from our kids, and theirs, to the upper few percent on the economic ladder with little or none trickling down to the common man the GOP purports to speak for. Dan Thompson, Union...
...Somalia Pirates Aim Higher With their capture of a colossal Saudi oil tanker on Nov. 15, Somali pirates seized their largest vessel yet amid a torrent of other hijackings in the Gulf of Aden, where there have been at least eight attacks in just the past two weeks. Pirates currently hold an estimated 17 vessels and some 300 crew for ransom. Some shipping firms are resorting to the long, costly route around Africa to avoid the gulf's dangerous waters...