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Digital cameras used to be strictly for the AV Club crowd. Now supermodels are bling-blinging them on the red carpet as if they were platinum tongue studs. How did digital cameras go from geeky to superfreaky? Gadgetmakers made them smaller, cheaper, simpler and sexier. Case in point: Sony's new Cybershot U DSC-U10 ($200) is just 4 in. long and weighs a mere 4 oz., and it's finished in a delicious pearlescent white--you want to pop it like a Tic Tac. It's great for taking snapshots and pix for the Web, but if you want...
Teddy’s shoeless ways no doubt conjure memories of some of the unsavory turf we all have had to tread at one time or another in our daily travels. Whether traversing a common room carpet in the aftermath of a 21st birthday party, the floor of any men’s bathroom—especially the perimeter of the toilet also known as the margin of error—or pits of flaming coals and boiling tar, one’s shoes are generally a comforting presence. Teddy, however, would disagree...
...room with pictures of flowers along the walls, he is joined by a second man with a wide face and short beard, identified by bystanders as a Taliban commander called Mullah Sayfullah Akhond (they are not related; akhond is an honorific). They sit cross-legged on the threadbare carpet as dust floats through the dull afternoon light. "We have to hide ourselves because the government is going from house to house looking for us," says Esmatullah. "If they find us, they send us to Kandahar to be questioned by the government and the Americans." He's wearing brown, he says...
...home to a man who navigates his days in a sip-and-puff wheelchair. But those signs are there: the 31-in. spaces between obstacles; the tall-legged dining-room table, allowing the whole family to pull up to dinner together; the stubbornly fraying seam in the living room carpet ("Tire damage," Reeve says with a laugh). But such easy domesticity was hard won for a man whose body suffered such a catastrophic insult...
...room with pictures of flowers along the walls, he is joined by a second man with a wide face and short beard, identified by bystanders as a Taliban commander called Mullah Sayfullah Akhond (they are not related; akhond is an honorific). They sit cross&-legged on the threadbare carpet as dust floats through the dull afternoon light. "We have to hide ourselves because the government is going from house to house looking for us," says Esmatullah. "If they find us, they send us to Kandahar to be questioned by the government and the Americans." He's wearing brown, he says...