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...portable media centers - built by Creative and Samsung - in September, with a third by iRiver out this month. Each has a color screen and a hard drive that can store music, pictures and video. It may prove difficult to enjoy a full-length movie on a 9-cm screen, but you will have other media from which to choose: Microsoft has partnered with content providers CinemaNow and Major League Baseball (just in time for the World Series). The Creative Labs 20-gigabyte Zen or the Samsung Yepp YH?999 are available for $500 per piece from Amazon.com. Prices...
...battling simple gravity. A section of the Mount's eastern retaining wall - 40 sq m of teetering sandstone, pitted and creased by centuries of dusty desert wind - is bulging away from the great mass of the Temple. The darkness that lies behind it breaks black through a 50-cm crack that runs 20 m to the top. Looking up at the wall, it seems the sandstone slabs might topple at any moment. That, indeed, is the fear of Israeli archaeologists. Since Solomon erected his temple on Mount Moriah in 960 B.C., it has been destroyed and sacked by Nebuchadnezzar...
...five women: two Russians, two Poles and an Icelander. At one point, world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia was one miss away from being bounced out of the competition - and then she cleared 4.80 m, claiming the gold. Finally, she had the bar set at 4.91 m, 1 cm higher than her old world record, and soared over on the first try. That done, she packed her pole for the night. Her motives were mercenary - on the track circuit, she gets a bonus every time she breaks the record. "I would like to do just a centimeter...
...images for signs of illness, specifically heart disease, spinal abnormalities and cancer. One X ray of Don's left kidney stunned Freilich. "What the hell is that?" he said aloud. Freilich had spotted a tumor that, at the press of a key, he measured at an enormous 8 cm in diameter. Freilich phoned his friend. "Would you like to come over and see your pictures?" "No." "You should. They're interesting...
After hitting the ground, the nymphs munch on grass roots and then tunnel down about 12 in. (30 cm) to feed on tree sap by attaching a strawlike organ to the roots. There the wingless bugs stay--for 17 years...