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...After spending years learning to master Blackberry thumb typing and Palm's Graffiti data entry, some business users may be reluctant to switch over to finger typing on a glass screen. Jobs says it's actually easier to type fast on an iPhone than on a Blackberry, but the test will be whether millions of fingers - fat, flat and stumpy- can navigate the screen as smoothly as veteran techies. If the learning curve proves too steep for early adopters, the early buzz might shift slightly, tempering the enthusiasm of those waiting out the first model's release...
...Klein's test for presidential candidates, "The Courage Primary," was inspiring, especially his call for national service [June 25]. It has been far too long since this country has asked anything of its citizens beyond opening their wallets. Why not offer the option of joining the Peace Corps or develop "draft" programs with agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? A true national-service tour of duty should be two years spent bettering the lives of others...
...plan carries a tone of a challenging exercise in engineering prowess, but research into the economic, political, and social advantage is an exercise that needs honing. Set to operate in the year 2025, it’s doubtful that the years between will foment any fanfare, but the real test will be whether the tunnel’s success outlives the fanfare or lack thereof...
...does not have a history of cancer. The doctor says the environment might have caused it. Whatever the reason, she is now preparing for chemotherapy after taking an MRI to check if the cancerous cells have spread to her brain because she has been having blinding headaches, and a test of seven lymph nodes surrounding her lungs for presence of cancerous cells have resulted in the affirmative...
...striking-down bit, but he wrote a separate opinion saying schools could consider race as a factor if they did so in ways precisely gauged to achieve diversity. The districts' plans were too crude - Seattle had only two categories: white and non-white - and too ambiguous to pass that test, Kennedy wrote. And because he supplied the fifth vote, he speaks for the court on the narrow point that a plan accounting for race might still pass constitutional muster...