Word: using
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...IIIc, which comes with 8 megs of memory, doesn't come cheap (asking price: a hefty $449). At 6.8 oz., it is supposedly the lightest color handheld computer on the market. Its rechargeable batteries promise to run, with "normal use," for a few weeks without a recharge; the cradle that you use to synchronize the Palm with your desktop doubles as a recharger...
...multimedia sensation. He has sold nearly 5 million CDs and has 28 weekly radio shows. Thanks in part to the priest's rock-star popularity, more Brazilians are going to Mass: weekly attendance rose to 12% last year, up from 4% in 1997. "I do not use communication to denounce, but to announce Christ," he says. "Then they will open their hearts." And kick up their heels...
Last year my Time Inc. co-workers and I received our sister magazine's swimsuit issue wrapped in a brown interoffice envelope. A white strip on the cover said FOR OFFICE USE. Though I had seen that phrase before on our publications, the thought of people somehow "using" this in their offices seemed really disturbing...
...writer who covers sports, I spend a good amount of time convincing women that athletic contests are a legitimate form of entertainment. To do this, I usually use words like "Aristotelian catharsis," but recently someone asked me to explain what that meant, which didn't go so well, so I don't say that anymore. But I know it doesn't mean "dumb guy who likes to drool over half-naked women with sand strategically affixed to them." I explained my opinions to Rebecca Romijn-Stamos when I interviewed her last year, and she responded by telling me that...
...tusks from animals who died naturally or were culled from herds, and last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species allowed one-time sales from some stockpiles. In April CITES will consider widening the now limited trade or closing it again altogether. Kenya and several other nations use armed patrols to guard elephants, but the patrols can't be everywhere all the time. Anecdotal evidence suggests that poaching has increased since last year's ivory sales. "Even if elephant numbers have recovered, there is nothing new since the horrors of the '80s to stop the ivory trade," says...