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...work in the dark. In stifling heat, the teams checked each room for looters and squatters, using a series of rhythmic chants to inform other team members of what they had found, as well as to indicate when backup was required. No man entered a room alone. "We expect [the looters] are gone by now," says special agent Marcus Custer of the San Diego division, "but we're trying to be cautious...
...People expect consumer electronics to keep getting smaller, as though it were a natural process like grass growing, but it doesn't happen by itself. The Nano may seem superficially iPod-esque on the outside, but on the inside it has been completely, painstakingly, exhaustively re-engineered. Older iPods (except for the low-capacity iPod Shuffle) have miniature hard drives in them, but the Nano is built around a chunk of solid-state Flash memory. The screen is all new too. Because it's smaller, the Nano's screen has to be sharper to be readable. (It ended up being...
...button. The speakers and display modules are removable and the jacket is machine washable for easy cleaning. The jackets, which range in price from $500 to $1,000, will be available at select high-end retailers in December. Of course, both companies (not to mention resort operators) expect responsible use of their jackets?screaming out "I'm on the ski slope!" is definitely discouraged...
...call the shots. Restricted by the social rules and safety fears that continue to govern women in Afghan society, female candidates are unable to campaign freely: they cannot travel on their own, throw election rallies or give speeches at mosques, the traditional arena for Afghan politicking. Nor can they expect support from local religious leaders, who denounce women in politics as an abomination. Under the Taliban, images of women were forbidden?and many families still prohibit wives and daughters from showing their faces in public. Yet 565 women candidates have had their photos placed on the ballots, even though they...
...capturing the news agenda. While the staff agonized about whether he should try to head off mounting criticism of the Iraq war by meeting a second time with Cindy Sheehan to discuss the death of her soldier son, Bush rejected the idea, saying part of the job is to expect protesters wherever he goes and he needs to "go on with my life, to keep a balanced life...