Now, a commitment to interpersonal contact can be difficult to sustain on a global scale.

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"Clearly we have a backlog in Europe... as you can imagine, with the global reach of Blackberry and people using it to contact others around the world, there's a lot of messages to Europe from Asia and the Americas, " RIM software vice president David Yach told a press conference in Ottawa, Canada.

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As I pointed out, we are constantly in contact with countries all around the world to try to confront the global phenomenon of volatile energy prices.

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Meantime, a downtown medical college run by Dr. Freida Law, a pediatrician schooled in Australia, tries to put students in clinical settings from the outset, to foster appreciation of patient care and suffering. (Li hasn't forgotten his father's struggle with tuberculosis.) Again the emphasis is on contact with the wider world, using the Li Foundation's global medical research ties as a bridge.

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Pfizer, for example, has created an app that makes it easy for employees to locate and contact co-workers travelling on business a boon in a global firm with peripatetic executives.

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The fact is the marketplace is littered with dozens of novelty watches, all of which tell time well, and which do such things as receive Global Positioning Systems signals, change the channel on TV sets, take pictures and store contact lists like a personal digital assistant.

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