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According to Byrne, he had reacted in a frantic split-second when Trombly—in the process of being unhandcuffed—used a free hand to grab for something in his deep pocket. Byrne said that at the time, he thought the student could have been pulling a knife...
...Barnes never dreamed that the long arm of the music industry would reach into his personal computer. Sure, the bus operator from Fresno, Calif., had used Napster to grab music files off the Internet. And when that file-swapping service was put out of business, he switched to its most popular successor, Kazaa. But he was careful not to leave a trace, transferring all his downloaded songs to separate discs. A visiting teenage grandson wasn't so careful, however, and last week Barnes, 50, was slapped with a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It alleged that...
...People say, ‘You know, it’s one thing about going back to school. Maybe we can grab that, maybe we can hang onto that. But you mean you’re going to live in a dorm...
...handyphone" technology that flopped in Japan in the 1990s. But Wu, who has an electrical-engineering degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, refined the system and managed to sell it to China's giant fixed-line firms, China Telecom and China Netcom, both of which wanted to grab a piece of the mobile market but have not yet been granted licenses by China's Ministry of Information Industries (MII). Wu skirted these obstacles by convincing the MII that Little Smart wasn't technically a mobile phone, thus allowing China Telecom and China Netcom to offer the service...
...Griboedova Canal a few days ago, I gazed at the onion domes of the Church on Spilled Blood. The zig-zagging blues and stripes of gold on its seven cupolas glimmered in the sun, and no matter how many times I walk down Griboedova, their brilliance never fails to grab my attention. The domes, and the church they adorn, were built over the spot where leftist terrorists assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and have glimmered ever since as brilliant reminders of the old tsars in a city already filled with monuments to the Romanov line...