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Ling speculates that the color preference and women's ability to better discriminate red from green could have evolved due to sex-specific divisions of labor: while men hunted, women gatherered, and they had to be able to spot ripe berries and fruits. Another theory suggests that women, as caregivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Why Girls Like Pink | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

Most cell phone owners think simply removing a phone's SIM card removes personal information, but the phone's internal memory, even communication exchanged between the phone and its server, remain. Phone manuals detail how to perform multiple reset commands to erase personal information and some online recycling phone services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

Typically, law enforcement agencies rely on simply "thumbing through" a cell phone to retrieve data, says Sgt. Michael Harrington, a detective with the Michigan State police. Another tool, as anyone who has watched the nightly cable crime news shows knows, is "pinging" a phone to search for its location, helpful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

In Europe, Constable Miller says, so-called "flasher boxes" are used to hold a cell phone's memory while repairs are under way. The boxes are the size of a deck of cards and come with about 100 cables that can be connected to specific data points on different phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

The current air traffic control system in the U.S. uses radar technology from the 1950s that makes for inefficient routes and dangerous conditions during storms. Planes must fly a specific flight path so that they can be guided by air traffic control centers stationed on the ground. One cross-country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Answer to Flight Delays? | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

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