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/ 5 March 2004

Technology you don’t know you need (yet)

As Lyndsay Williams trudged along snow-covered paths and passed by shop windows one recent day in Cambridge, England, so too did her SenseCam — automatically snapping hundreds of photos along the way. Later that day, Williams could have used those pictures to figure out where she’d left her car keys, or to show a friend the sweater she saw in a window.

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/ 5 March 2004

McDonald’s to trim its jumbo menu items

McDonald’s is already well on the way to phasing out the few ”super size” menu items that it offers in Europe, a regional spokesperson for the United States fast-food chain said on Thursday. ”In most of Europe, there aren’t portions of that size,” McDonald’s Europe spokesperson Mike Love said in London.

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/ 5 March 2004

The cost of survival

There is a still moment near the end of Gillian Slovo’s 1997 family memoir when, in the cold of 5am, just after her father has died, Nelson Mandela says exactly the right thing. Slovo’s parents had been part of the fight against apartheid since the early 50s.

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/ 5 March 2004

Now Kerry faces the $100-million man

Two days after his coronation as the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, John Kerry faced up to a hard truth on Thursday: George Bush has a -million head start in the election campaign fundraising race. While Bush has -million in hand, Senator Kerry enters the presidential race with his reserves depleted by his party’s primary contest.