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...tall man in an open-neck shirt, jacket and trousers looked like any of the traveling merchants who frequent the area. When he was stopped at a Kurdish checkpoint near Kalar, officials made an intriguing discovery in his travel bag: two CDs and a computer flash disc the size of a cigarette lighter. With a hunch who their catch was--the CIA had given them a heads-up that he might be in the area--the Kurdish officials snapped a digital mug shot of the traveler and e-mailed it to their American intelligence contacts. The confirmation came back quickly...
Somewhere buried deep beneath Pennypacker Hall, in the coffins of WHRB’s Record Hospital, sits a compact disc without liner notes; they fell out long ago. Now white labels cover the case, with the scrawling of many hands over every square inch. The record is Zopilote Machine by the Mountain Goats, and the writing logs every date and time a Record Hospital disc jockey experienced a moment of epiphany listening to the soaring “Going To Georgia”—to this day the most powerful song in the Goats’ prolific catalog...
DRIVESAVERS.COM When your hard disc dies, what do you do? Well, there's a 90% chance that DriveSavers can retrieve your precious files within 48 hours, the fastest turnaround time in the data-recovery business. (When one of my Macs decided to delete all my old diaries, DriveSavers sent me a CD containing every lost file the next day.) The average price: $900. No wonder the company grossed $10 million last year, and is still growing...
...lead singers—a man and a woman—and their new album, Underachievers Please Try Harder, sports a cover photo of two women in 60s garb—one clutching a teddy bear and the other an old-fashioned movie camera. Song titles on the new disc include “Suspended from Class,” “Your Sister’s Social Agony,” “Teenager” and “Books Written for Girls.” Does this sound at all familiar...
Though she remembers no specific incident to explain the injury, Pitushka suffered a ruptured disc in her back sometime after the Minnesota-Duluth game Dec. 13 and has been missing in action ever since. Both she and Harvard coach Katey Stone expect her to be back for this weekend’s road games against Colgate and Cornell...