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...will need to run flashlights, radios, handheld fans and anything else that takes portable juice. Remember to reverse the position of batteries stored in flashlights to prevent them from accidentally switching on and losing power. If you don't have a portable radio, buy one, but first check your clock radios and plug-in CD/radios since some of them also have battery capability...
...massive, marble-lined palaces he erected all over Iraq as monuments to his power. According to close associates, he would stay instead in small houses on the edges of his various compounds, changing location every eight to 10 hours and keeping an assistant on duty around the clock to pack and unpack his suitcases. Saddam, his former secretary says, so admired the fortitude of the Bedouin tribes that wander the Iraqi wilderness that he often headed into the mountains--accompanied, of course, by caravans of aides, cooks and bodyguards--to bed down among them. "He lived very simply," says...
...Staples wall clock plays a curious role in the new film Dirty Pretty Things, a thriller starring Audrey Tautou. The 10-in. timepiece, with its maker's logo plainly visible, fills the screen at a couple of points in the film and looks suspiciously like something put there through the sort of paid product placement that marketers employ to get everything from soft drinks to cars featured in movies. But in this case Staples didn't pay a dime. Instead it is the latest lucky beneficiary of an artist's aesthetic choices...
Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski, the film's production designer, says, "We just bought a clock." His set decorator found it at a London flea market. Getting a wall clock that was "kind of American looking" satisfied his desire to give context to the film's Nigerian-born lead character, who had lived in New York City. "It was a way of saying he brought it with him from America," says the production designer...
...serendipitous meeting of art and commerce is "a big wow," according to Susan Ciulla, vice president of merchandising for office-supply giant Staples. She won't disclose sales figures, but Ciulla says the clock, which retails for $8.98, is already "the best-selling one Staples has in its mix." And its high profile in the movie might well give it a boost...