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...darkness on the night of Nov. 8, 1999, with four men she hardly knew, down the dirt tracks in a 1,000-hectare plantation of towering oil palms. They brought her to this spot at the base of one palm where a crude scarlet "X" slashed into the bark of the trunk is still visible. And here she knelt for the ceremony, only to feel, instead of the garland of flowers she had been expecting, the bite of a nylon rope cut into her neck...
...send flowers, thanks to Onstar's Concierge service. Later this year the U.S. company will offer voice-activated cell phone calls and a personalized website, and eventually traffic reports. Mercedes drivers can help themselves to text-based weather, sports and stock updates from U.S. company ATX, watch TV or bark orders to their radio, thanks to Mercedes-Benz's own Linguatronic system. Snarl-up warnings are piped in by German firm Tegaron. Italian on-board telecoms company Viasat foresees its customers shopping or downloading music while stuck in traffic jams. Carmakers call it "telematics" - interacting with services by means...
With Eames chairs and bark-cloth drapes coming back into vogue, it was only a matter of time before linoleum floors joined the retro-design boom. MTV's offices in Santa Monica, Calif., are covered with the stuff, while Jack Nicholson, Ted Danson and Phil Collins have all had intricate hand-cut floors inlaid at their homes by Hollywood designer Laurie Crogan. The tacky old sheeting product has also been refashioned into modern "linoleum rugs." They were born in L.A. a few years back, when abstract painter Christopher Stearns decided to cover up his apartment's ugly kitchen with portable...
...that in the bot business. Tiger claims its Mousies can sumo wrestle, but it takes a vivid imagination to interpret their random bumping as sumo body blows. Likewise, the company's seemingly endless line of Robo-Chi toys (cat, bird, dogs, even a plant) do little more than bark and squawk at one another...
...hotel room broken into three times by strangers in the times that I've gone on tour. It's not even [always] a crime. Hotels will sometimes give a key accidentally to someone checking in when there's already someone else in that room. The dogs would bark if somebody were trying to get into the door; they would alert...