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DIED. GEORGE ROBERT STIBITZ, 90, computer pioneer; in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1937, working in his kitchen, Stibitz cobbled together a primitive adding device out of dry-cell batteries, metal strips from a tobacco can, flashlight bulbs and telephone wires. Many consider it the earliest antecedent to the digital computer. Frustrated as a Bell Labs researcher, Stibitz eventually joined the faculty at Dartmouth...
Michael had grown quiet, withdrawn, in the days leading up to that Sunday afternoon in July. She glanced at the heavy flashlight on the stone fireplace and thought of grabbing it, hitting him on the head and getting the gun away. But she was afraid something would go wrong, so she stayed where she was. He put the gun to his head...
...toilets, until he started brokering Russian-made wine in front of the Kiev railway station. When he was pushed out by a group of gypsies who controlled the wine trade, Leonid turned to imported cigarettes. Since then, he has branched out; one week he may move a consignment of flashlight batteries, the next a shipment of government-issue boots, obtained from a corrupt policeman. His ability to broker everything from investment bonds to manicure scissors can earn him 70,000 rubles...
...more suggestion--bring a hardhat with a flashlight if you can. Even if you don't have a blackout or even bad lights above you, it might inject a little humor into your otherwise treacherous...
Shining his flashlight around the dark corridors of a Chicago public-housing project, a police officer whose street name is Ghost (his real name is Enriquito Florez) illuminates some places where he has found hidden guns: behind broken exit signs, behind an electrical panel, atop a doorframe. On this night his light flashes on a hallway garbage drop that has been left open, with twine flapping loose; someone had apparently tied a gun inside but hastily wrenched it loose. Inside apartments, the officer relates, he has found cocaine in a container of Comet cleanser, guns hidden inside toilets and, once...