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...come along: the iPod, the TiVo, even, once upon a time, the VCR and the Walkman. The Slingbox definitely does its part to dumbfound. It's not a DVD player, or a cable box, or a video recorder like TiVo. It's a little manager, shaped like a brick of gold bullion, that takes video sources like cable TV, TiVo and DVD, and sends the signal to your PC. What's crazy is that it doesn't matter if your PC is in the next room or in Singapore-you'll get your video...
...Peabody housing estate have become used to seeing cops on the street, reminders that their city is under threat. The war came home last week. "We won't hurt you!" a group of armed police shouted to men sheltering inside a fourth-floor apartment in a block of red-brick buildings. The officers had staked out the complex for hours, believing that two of the men wanted for the unsuccessful attempt to bomb the city's transportation system on July 21 were hiding inside. When the suspects failed to give themselves up, witnesses say, the officers stuck a strip...
...stick. If you're going to fly so tricky a ship, you have to be. "When you re-enter, you're moving at 25 times the speed of sound," says former astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard. Hitting the atmosphere at that velocity is "not unlike slamming into a brick wall, if you're not at the correct attitude...
...intended to bleed off speed in order to ease the shuttle down to Earth, but they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very precise," says Thagard...
...piece of vacant land adjoining the secluded Ha'atafu Beach, some 20 km from Nuku'alofa, the capital. The Burlings thought about opening a restaurant there, then became excited about the idea of a resort. Burling considered his choices: stay in Sydney, he recalls, and be another "brick in the wall," or take a risk in Tonga. For a free spirit like Burling, it was a no-brainer. "I figured that if we ended up back in Sydney with the arse out of our pants," he says, "we wouldn't be much different to a lot of other young couples...