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...Friends were skeptical when Ricard D. Nitrell ’03-’04 guaranteed that he’d hook up with BC hottie Gretchen Murphy after she replied favorably to an e-mail he wrote that read, “Come to Harvard, yo. I’ll show you a good time.” Nitrell explains: “Look, implicit in ‘I’ll show you a good time’ is ‘I’ll show you a good time... on my nuts...
...stun gun, the Advanced Taser M-18L, looks like a pistol. But instead of firing bullets, it shoots tethered darts that hook into the skin or clothes. Victims typically scream in pain and writhe on the floor until the shock subsides--usually within a minute. Heavy-duty tasers are already used by more than 1,000 police departments in the U.S.; United Airlines just bought 1,300. And now Taser, sensing a new market opportunity in post-Sept. 11 anxiety, is launching its first models aimed at ordinary citizens. Prices start...
...Tansy learns the rules of the new Asia soon enough: do not accept drugs from men on strange motorcycles unless they're offering cocaine; do hook up as soon as possible with whatever group is desperate enough to accept you. And she starts down the backpacking trail with equal measures of complaint and courage. Her journey is prosaic in the extreme, filled with hearty Aussie backpackers, haughty French, outwardly friendly but inscrutable native guides, beachside bars in Cambodia, beachside bars in Thailand, etc. Although Tansy enjoys it, the strongest sensation the reader is likely to get from her trip...
...public. U.S. sales fell 3%, the first drop in a decade. Add huge losses from pirating and downloading free music on the Internet and it?s a drumbeat of bad news. EMI tried to solve its problems with two recent merger attempts, but Europe?s regulators rejected bids to hook up with AOL Time Warner, this magazine?s parent, and Bertelsmann...
...media story, of course, the Pearl saga has the added hook - much like the anthrax letter to Tom Brokaw - of being about one of our own. Pearl's boss, Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, pleaded with the group to at least restore Pearl to the role that led him to the Village restaurant the night of Jan. 22 - "View Danny as a messenger," Steiger wrote - and that is what shakes journalists most about the story. Hotspot reporters know the risks, but they're also used to thinking that what they can offer professionally - a mass audience - will...