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...market for firms like electronic-goods maker Beijing Golden Global View Co. "Unlike other electronics companies that have a celebrity praising a product," says Zhang Weimin, project manager at the firm, "we decided to sell our products by using cool, individualistic young people." It helps to offer the right gear. Beijing Golden Global View is expanding its product line from electronic dictionaries to hipper stuff such as digital cameras and MP3 players...
...single device. Unlike earlier all-purpose models, it doesn't require you to have a computer-science degree to make it work. Just connect the remote to your computer through the USB cable included in the package, tell the Harmony Web page the make and model number of your gear, and let the software upload the relevant codes. Buttons labeled WATCH TV and LISTEN TO MUSIC allow you to switch functions quickly, and a 1-in. screen displays television listings...
...yard event, he easily separated himself from the competition over the first 50 yards before kicking his stroke into a second gear, besting the next-fastest swimmer over the same stretch by 0.91 seconds. The 200-yard was little different...
...platoon stops on a largely deserted road along the river and sets up a checkpoint. After fruitlessly searching a dozen cars for weapons, the Tomb Raiders head home. Whiteside unloads his gear and lays his machine gun next to his cot, which sits below a gallery of pictures of half-clad women clipped from magazines. "It's like Groundhog Day," he says. "It's the same thing every day. You just don't know whether you're going to live...
...first time that Serbia has weathered bad leaders. And while the new crop may be reactionary, they won't be marching Serbia back to war anytime soon, even though sometimes it can feel that way. On a chilly recent evening in downtown Belgrade, several dozen police in full riot gear fanned out to block a major thoroughfare. Passersby looked on in alarm, until it became apparent that it was a stunt, designed to publicize the opening of a new film about the violent 1996-97 anti-Milosevic riots. As for Milosevic and Seselj, Hague officials late last week banned both...