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James Quinn and his classmates called it the blackjack - five layers and 18 in. (46 cm) of leather, studded with coins and other metal objects. The priests at the school Quinn attended in rural Ireland in the 1950s each carried a blackjack and used it, along with bamboo rods and other objects, to dole out almost daily beatings to hundreds of children. "Whatever class you went to, you got a beating from whoever was in charge," says Quinn, now 70. "But knowing what other people went through, I know I was one of the lucky ones...
...President - a slight, erudite former journalist who peppers conversation with quotes from Dostoyevsky and Dante - to save the Maldives from sinking under the weight of its problems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body of scientists, forecasts that sea levels will rise an estimated 2 ft. (60 cm) this century, enough to inundate a good portion of the country, many of whose 1,200 isles sit just 3 ft. (1 m) above the ocean. "For us, fear of sinking is no different than the fear of persecution," says Ali Rilwan, head of Bluepeace, a local environmentalist group...
...Sony Vaio P The Vaio P (from $1,170) pairs supermodel proportions - it's as thick as a tube of lipstick - with savvy features. Text on the 8-in. (20 cm) LED display can be magnified with a key tap. And the 60-GB drive can be upped to a 128-gig solid-state drive, which, as it has no moving parts, is more likely to survive a fall. www.sony.com...
...Samsung NC10 The NC10 ($450) is built for life on the road. Its sturdy plastic casing, which houses a 10.2-in. (26 cm) screen and 160-GB hard drive, will stand up to a battering in your bag. And its wide trackpad and near laptop-size keyboard mean that even the sausage-fingered can tap happily on this micro-PC. www.samsung.com...
...seat passengers in the front and $400-a-seat flyers in the back, the reasoning is that there's got to be a sizable segment of business flyers who wouldn't mind saving thousands and leisure travelers who will pay a little more to get 20-in. (50 cm) seats and tons of legroom and not share space with wailing babies and tour groups. For road warriors, this concept is a no-brainer. "It was a third the price and at least three times the experience, an inverse proportion," notes Mary Egan of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a recent...