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...time at high-tech trade shows. But at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, one was particularly shocking. Volunteers by the dozen lined up at the Taser International booth for a chance to get blasted with 50,000 volts from the company's newest stun gun. "It felt like I got hit by lightning 100 times," said Jeremy Friedbaum, 46, of Provo, Utah...
...finish up at the track, we visit the bobsledders. The U.S. women are famously controversial, owing to top-gun driver Jean Racine kicking her former best friend and brakeman Jen Davidson out of the sled. Racine and new brakeman Gea Johnson still have a good chance to medal. On the men's side, Texan Todd Hays, 32, is a household name from Calgary to Cortina after emerging during the current World Cup series as a daring driver with a superfast sled...
...American Jay Hakkinen, 24, has placed as high as fifth in a World Cup event. Hakkinen, who has been blasting since 1994, says that despite America's habitual futility in biathlon, he has heard only support, never ridicule: "You just don't joke around about the guy with the gun, I guess...
...Justin Wadsworth, 33, who will compete in his third Games at Salt Lake City, "up to 40% could possibly be dopers ... It almost makes me sick." Last year six Finns failed drug tests at the world championships. Rest assured, no matter how many are caught before the Olympic start gun sounds, enough will beat the tests to whip any and all Yanks. At least in one Peripheral, we will still look peripheral...
...this would be material for that central column, but for the fact Daniel Pearl, whose wife, Marianne, is pregnant with their first child, is being held somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, with a gun to his head. By kidnappers who do not appear to know what they are doing. Pearl's old boss scoffs at the idea he was working for anybody but his editors - "Of all the reporters who worked in the Washington bureau he had the most jaundiced view of government," Jill Abramson told the New York Times. This is a journalist - a journalist in deep trouble...