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About the size of a regular laptop keyboard, though with slightly smaller keys, the KeyCase is made of ElekTex, a lightweight fabric invented by Britain-based ELEKSEN, which combines conductive and traditional fibers in a way that allows it to be cleaned with a damp cloth and keep working even if you spill coffee on it. When a finger hits a key, the sensing system sends electronic impulses that can be understood by conventional electronic equipment...
...make the trip downtown this week might make one more stop. At Varick and North Moore, a minute from Canal and just 12 blocks north of where the Trade Center once stood, is the firehouse of N.Y.F.D. Ladder Co. 8. You can stand outside, with the candles and damp flowers, and see the picture of a fire fighter missing since Sept. 11. Then turn south to look at the now unscraped sky and wonder when the rest of the world will be touched by the magic with which New Yorkers live each...
...like Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines take up the relay of training jihad fighters? Al-Qaeda is said to have cells and camps set up in the Philippines and has made common cause with the Abu Sayyaf rebels fighting for a Muslim state on the island of Mindanao. The damp jungles may not be familiar turf for al-Qaeda fighters, but they made a safe guerrilla beachhead for the Abu Sayyaf. The Bush Administration has promised President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo $19 million to combat the rebels and will soon send a stockpile of modern weaponry...
...late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads or garrotings, but Trujillo's thugs have their ways: "Between sessions in the electric chair, they dragged him, naked, to a damp cell...To keep him from sleeping they taped his lids to his eyebrows..." You would not want to push the comparison much further, except to say that both authors have a knack for turning Darwin into harrowing fiction...
...paste-up back then by hand, with X-acto knives, waxed type and blue-gridded layout boards. We worked in what can only be described as a cave off the newspaper’s paste-up room. I remember cold, cracked, concrete walls, leaky pipes, and a damp vegetable odor that mingled with the pervasive smells of ink, hot wax and photo chemicals. An atmosphere, I imagine, not too different from those at L.A’s downscale porn studios...