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...plan," which assigns each crew member a sensitive part of the plane to demolish. Some of the steps?erasing computer hard drives that recorded the day's mission?were manageable even if the plane's violent rocking kept the crew strapped into their seats. But the most sophisticated eavesdropping gear was supposed to be destroyed in order to be saved, smashed with hammers and hatchets or stuffed into weighted bags and dumped out of the plane's cargo doors. Once the plane managed to land safely, there could be one last chance to cram secret papers into special containers...
...most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days before the race, he is working on his bike, removing a few links of the engine chain to lower the gear ratio and give the bike a little more pop off the line. He kneels down with a lighted candle next to him, his hands greasy and black as he works to reattach the chain to the gear sprockets. Around him a few teenage boys and girls are gathered, smoking cigarettes...
...every household is moving online, data transmission has been expanding at phenomenal rates. But as phone companies and Internet service providers sprang up everywhere, capacity raced light-years ahead of demand. So the price for using the pipes tumbled, hobbling the telcos' ability to expand and to buy more gear. "Never in the history of industry has the sheer number of competitors been so underestimated and misunderstood," says former AT&T Broadband president Leo Hindery. "And never have the implications of technology advancement been so misunderstood as well...
...state of astonishment and bewilderment for eight years. Each day's headlines had us outraged or applauding. With each speech, Clinton won us over, but then lost us in a cloud of dust as the next unsavory episode unfolded. We never had a chance to go into restful, neutral gear. Maybe we never will. NANCY BAKER Columbus, Ohio...
...spokesman for Mexico's Zapatista Rebellion, the always masked Subcomandante Marcos, ended a 2,000-mile march from his base in Chiapas with a rally in Mexico City last week. He drew nearly 100,000 passionate spectators and more than a few resourceful vendors trafficking in Marcos-inspired gear. His demands for better treatment of the nation's Indian population seemed to resonate; his call for Mexico to "stop being an object of shame dressed in the color of money" seemed to go unheeded by souvenir hawkers...