Word: backpackable
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...report of a security guard in foot pursuit of a subject that was observed breaking into a vending machine at Conant Lab. Check of the area came back with negative results. The suspect is described as a white male, thirty years of age, full beard, wearing blue jeans, a backpack and a puffy black coat...
...friend. She wanted a divorce and was adamant about it. But on June 3, according to a friend of Terry's, John refused to leave. He dug in for the next four days. On June 7, an exasperated Terry put toiletries, a blow-dryer and clothes in a backpack and headed for a co-worker's home...
...Terry's friends tell the story, she would find something incendiary in the backpack. Terry told her mother that daughters Tasha, 17, and Brandy, 13, apparently slipped in a years-old letter from their father expressing a love now long withered and seeking a reconciliation that had come and gone. The children may have hoped the words would still have force. If so, Terry's relatives say, they were too much for her to bear. She had dropped out of high school to have a baby with John; she stuck with him through 18 years and moved from California...
...more and more gadgets, from laptops and printers to cell phones and Palm Pilots. What does it let you do? A cool example: Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Headset HBH-30 ($150) is a lightweight earpiece-microphone that lets you speak unobtrusively through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone sitting in a backpack, a briefcase or even another room as far as 30 ft. away...
...perfect E," it follows Aitkenhead and her hubby Paul as they wander through America, Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Netherlands looking for a way to recapture their early transcendent experiences on Ecstasy. If the words "drugs" and "travel guide" trigger sudden flashbacks of Alex Garland's backpack bible The Beach, don't get excited?this adventure pales in comparison. Not only does Aitkenhead attempt the same jaded been-there, done-that tone as the Gen X bestseller, she even names one of her chapters after Garland's novel and sets a large chunk of her story in the same...