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...comparison is against one of the batteries in our portfolio that is recommended for everyday devices like flashlights, toys, smoke detectors," says Jeff Ziminski, vice president of North American marketing at Energizer. Energizer plans to let consumers know (loudly) that in tests specifically for digital cameras, e2 lithium batteries blow the socks off competitors...
...Space Cadet; in Los Angeles. The live, often cheesy show--it once employed a turtle to portray an evil dinosaur--followed the 24th century exploits of Tom and his fellow Space Academy trainees, who aimed to ensure "universal peace." Airing three times a week, it spawned idioms ("Don't blow your jets!") and dozens of Tom Corbett products. After the show ended in 1955, Thomas quit acting--"After Tom, where else could I go?" he said--and became a successful pro bridge player...
...embassy takeover was not just a symbolic blow against the U.S. but also a power play in the struggle between radical Islamists and more moderate elements within the Iranian revolution, who were already reaching out to the U.S. To the Islamic students, any rapprochement with Washington was supping with the devil. What the embassy takeover promised them was a chance to rekindle the revolution, goad the Great Satan into waving his pitchfork at Iran and force the moderates to renounce the U.S. and all its wicked devices...
...recent weeks Merapi has been showing its uncharitable side. A series of small eruptions has darkened the sky with hot clouds of gas, raining ash on the fields below, and discharging streams of lava down the mountain. By last Saturday, the dome remained intact, but threatened to blow at any time. "We are still at the highest alert status," says Subandrio, director of the Merapi-observation division of Indonesia's Center of Volcanological Research and Technology in Yogyakarta. "An explosion is still very possible...
...Last week, however, thousands of them filed back to their homes, partly out of fear that they were being looted (they weren't). Merapi's current caretaker, 79-year-old Marijan, told reporters his dreams tell him the volcano won't blow its top, but that the eruptions are a warning to the people to fulfill their obligations to the spirits. He says he won't leave his own home, even though it's just 6 km from the summit: "If I do, I would not be guarding the mountain I have promised to guard. I would not be doing...