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Kansas has a knowing relationship with radicals. A portrait of abolitionist John Brown - gun in one hand, Bible in the other - occupies a place of honor at the state capitol in Topeka. Bar-bashing Carry Nation took her hatchet to some of the best saloons in the state. Wichitans long ago processed the fact that a doctor with a mansion in the suburbs wore not just a gown to work but also a bulletproof vest. They kept it at arm's length, though. Some places, like some people, seem to relish any sort of attention. Not this place...
...city of low profiles, of taciturn factory workers and reticent billionaires. Did you know that a Wichita musician named Gage Brewer was the first to whang an electric guitar in concert? Of course you didn't. Or that the first organized sit-in to desegregate a lunch counter took place in a Wichita Rexall? Many of the kids who participated never even told their parents...
...sync that stuck out: "We looked at Palm's DNA and said, 'What made it great?' Synching - from Day One, Palm has been about synching." But these days, people don't want to be tethered to a computer, he says. "People keep their data all over the place. It's no longer spread all over their computer. It's spread throughout the cloud...
Mashing up all those feeds in one place could be confusing. But the Pre handles it intelligently via something it calls Universal Search. The Pre is a slide phone - a touchscreen on its face gives way to a keyboard below. Simply start typing, and WebOS pulls up a pane that searches your contacts and also gives you the option to search via Google, Wikipedia or Twitter. You can type, "How fast does a zebra run," hit a Google button and get the answer. Pretty sweet...
...with those terms long run and best. The first debate centers on whether you can count on stocks' long-term advantage to work out over your particular investment horizon; the second is about whether an investment as risky as stocks belongs in a retirement portfolio in the first place...