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...that killed 17 American sailors on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, FBI agents assigned to the case touched down in the port city of Aden-and started to wait. For several hours the agents sat on their plane while the Yemenis searched through their luggage, itemizing every piece of high-tech equipment the gumshoes were bringing in. It was downhill from there. When they finally arrived at the Hotel Movenpick, where they would bunk three or four sweaty bodies to a room, they realized nobody had enough cash. They had taken off so fast few had got to the bank...
...cooking and they at least think they need to upgrade constantly. "We tell people the [$5,000] Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company. "But it isn't the last grill they buy." Barbecuers are also enhancing the grill thrill with an array of accessories, some high-tech, like forks and tongs with built-in meat thermometers, and others low tech, like customized branding irons (presumably not to be used with that other indispensable barbecue accessory, beer...
...decades they have come to Loch Ness, camera-toting tourists and scientists with high-tech submersibles, all desperate for a glimpse of the world's most famous monster. Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi says they will never find Nessie, because she's an earthquake. He claims seismic activity in the Great Glen Fault, directly under the Scottish lake, coincides with the sightings, groaning noises and water-surface disturbances attributed to Scotland's favorite beast. Tell that to the tourist bureau...
...their customers. Launched in Cincinnati in 1997, the firm (www.intelliseek.com) began providing deep search resources for individual researchers, but its real targets are the intranets of global corporations. Among its biggest clients are Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble. Also Nokia and Ford, which - along with In-Q-Tel, the high-tech investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency - put up much of the $9.4 million in venture capital Intelliseek has received in recent weeks...
...hearings in 1991 - once law-school professor Anita Hill reluctantly came forward to accuse Thomas of sexual harassment - became one of those events we'll still be arguing about over soft food in the nursing home. They were the first hearings for high stakes played with no rules. The proceedings felt to Thomas like "a high-tech lynching," to Anita Hill like character assassination. (Republicans dredged up the infamous John Doggett 3d, a lawyer who testified that Hill was an erotomaniac for thinking he would ever condescend to date her.) To the rest of us, the hearings felt like must...