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Most important, Rex works. Unlike the Vista, which gives gadgetry a bad name, Rex made even a techno-skeptic like me a little weak in the knees. It's impeccably stylish, right down to its cobalt blue docking station and purple cable connector, and at $150 to $190 (depending on the type of PC connection you choose), it's cheaper than most full-size handhelds. It's custom-made for notebook users who can slide it into a PC card slot for updates. True, it doesn't offer all the expansion options of the bigger handhelds, such as games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PDAs on a Diet | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Under the pen name Holden Scott--"my fantasy WASP name," Mezrich said--he is also the author of Skeptic and The Carrier...

Author: By Matt Callahan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Thrills Dudley House Audience | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...Shyamalan does an effective job of bringing the viewer along with the characters; the evidence Dunn considers and the conclusions he reaches are clear and seem logical. However, the larger ideas of the film are not as clear to the audience, and can leave many a viewer as a skeptic...

Author: By Rebecca Dezube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shattered: 'Unbreakable' Not Quite Air-Tight | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...crowding at election offices like the one in Portland's Multnomah County, where the line of "mail-in" voters on election night stretched for two blocks. "We have vote-by-mail until the Friday before the election," says Dan Lavey, a Bush campaign consultant and vote-by-mail skeptic. "And from Saturday through Tuesday, we have mildly organized chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Is This Any Way To Vote? | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...always been something of a cyber-skeptic. Though I was given a free e-mail account my freshman year of college (this was, mind you, back in the Internet's Paleolithic era), it took me a full two years to send my first message. While students all around me were tapping out notes to friends and family and sending breezy missives to professors, I was losing touch with my high school buddies, playing phone tag with my parents and staking out the mobbed office hours of my teachers, where etiquette demanded only the pithiest of conversations. But once professors started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet 101: The Case for Online Courses | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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