Word: backpack
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...ever going to convince me that mixing vinegar, yellow food coloring, and rocks could make “real” gold. Afternoon Alchemy was a bust, and I wanted a revolution. “This is so mundane!” I shouted, slamming my backpack onto the linoleum floor of the Alchemist’s Lair. My classically pre-Harvardian outburst won me more than just scornful laughs. Instead of revolution, what I got were two weeks of isolation from my imagined comrades. And while it may have been lonely actively refraining from the plebeian trappings...
...create an account and play an online game that involves finding more clues. This makes you eligible to win cash prizes. If you find all 39 clues you could win the grand prize of $10,000. Which you could maybe use to buy yourself a 39 Clues backpack...
...computer. The Cross Match founders spotted an empty niche for light, rugged, relatively inexpensive live-scan fingerprint machines. Borrowing $250,000 from relatives and friends, they came up with a 23-lb., $10,000 optical scanner that produced high-resolution, forensic-quality print images. It could fit in a backpack, and its calibration was not thrown off by jarring from a squad car or humvee. In 1997 the three partners brought in Ted Johnson, a retired Paine Webber executive, to be CEO and chief fund raiser. "They really took the industry by storm," says Brian Gesuale, vice president for technology...
...blast, which killed two people and injured 21 others, came from a backpack bomb. Philippine police believe it was orchestrated by an associate of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Filipino separatist group. "There was a lapse in intelligence gathering," says an angry Mahasol. "It should be maximized to avoid another incident like this...
...Lieut.-Col. Websdane was also optimistic for a return to normality: "I told my sheikh friends who've invited me back for a holiday that in five years' time I'll be back, wearing a suit or carrying a backpack." Only if that day comes will the Australians truly be able to consider their mission accomplished...