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...years ago, Jobs sicced his wrecking crew of designers and engineers on the cell phone as we know--and hate-- it. They began by melting the face off a video iPod. No clickwheel, no keypad. They sheared off the entire front and replaced it with a huge, bright, vivid screen--that touch screen Jobs got so excited about a few paragraphs ago. When you need to dial, it shows you a keypad; when you need other buttons, the screen serves them up. When you want to watch a video, the buttons disappear. Suddenly, the interface isn't fixed and rigid...
...pretty. Now pick it up and make a call. A big friendly icon appears on that huge screen. Say a second call comes in while you're talking. Another icon appears. Tap that second icon, and you switch to the second call. Tap the "merge calls" icon, and you've got a three-way conference call. It's ridiculously simple...
...What about the huge-serving Andy Roddick? Hasn't he improved under coach Jimmy Connors...
...baseline game, Tomic, now 14, plays with the kind of palpable intensity that these days is a prerequisite for getting anywhere in tennis, and he looks destined to be a tall boy, perhaps 190-cm by the time he stops growing. The leap from juniors to the Tour is huge and the tennis canyon is full of former prodigies who didn't make it. But Tomic is the best Australian prospect since Hewitt...
...Still, Bush faces a huge personal and political crisis over the surge. Even before the speech, moderate Republicans in his own party were busy releasing statements opposing the reinforcements and Democrats were still plotting how to bring the proposed increase to a vote in some way to allow members to express their unhappiness with the conduct of the war and the new U.S. strategy. "Escalation won't solve the problem," said Sen. Joseph Biden. "It will compound...