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...pleased as I was with the product, there were some things that rubbed me the wrong way. Every other portable navigator that I have tested shuts off when I turn off the ignition of my car. Even those that run on batteries offer to stay on but automatically shutting down if I don?t answer. The Nav-U stays on unless you manually turn it off; several times during my test I forgot to shut it down, and ended up draining the battery...
Last week, I reviewed the frill-laden Alpine Blackbird navigator, a $750 product that has all sorts of features, including an FM transmitter to hear instructions (and music) through the car stereo, as well as built-in hardware to receive traffic updates, once the service launches in June. This week, I look at Sony?s entry into portable navigation, the remarkably priced and exceptionally stylish...
...audio, too, was a surprise. Who would have thought that a digital woman?s voice, set at a reasonable volume, could so clearly cut through the music blaring from my car stereo? Alpine?s Blackbird may have an FM transmitter for broadcasting commands through the car radio, but Sony?s Nav-U doesn?t seem to need...
Later we moved by car and then by foot into Monrovia to see how far ECOMOG troops on the ground had advanced behind their air and artillery attacks. We were walking past a small airport called Spriggs Payne, held that morning by Taylor's rebels, when we suddenly discovered ourselves, with our N.P.F.L. bodyguard, behind ECOMOG lines. A group of Guinean and Ghanaian soldiers ordered us to accompany them to their base camp just west of Spriggs Payne. "Look what we've got!" shouted one. "Taylor's writers -- and we got us a rebel!" As more ECOMOG soldiers gathered...
...They beat him in the car as they barreled off. When they arrived he was blindfolded and beaten some more, his pockets emptied, and a picture of his young daughter rifled from his wallet. "Who is this?" a captor quizzed. "This is my daughter," he says he replied. "Can I ask you a favor? Can I kiss that picture before you kill me?" The price for his release, he was warned, was $20,000 by morning-or he would never see his daughter again. To drive home the point they lifted his blindfold just enough to let him see bare...