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...book for his girlfriend to read while she was recovering from a car accident. As her run of bad luck would have it, she was later trapped inside her house as it burned down. Recalling the book's advice on "How to Break Down a Door," she kicked the lock and made like Houdini. True story or MacGyver fantasy? You just never know...
...protest a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Ramsey was ready. Police using pepper spray arrested 630 protesters Saturday (including a Washington Post photographer) and another 40 early Sunday. They also conducted raids, confiscating dozens of the metal "sleeping dragons" protesters use to lock their arms to form human chains, and fire marshals declared the warehouse where the demonstrators had set up their command post a fire hazard and shut it down...
Deforestation has a similarly broad range of impact. One thing trees do is lock up a lot of carbon in their woody tissues, thereby preventing it from escaping into the atmosphere. Trees are also important recyclers of moisture to the atmosphere. In some parts of the Amazon basin, deforestation has reached the point where it is altering precipitation patterns. This is because so much of the moisture entrained by clouds comes from the canopy of the forest below; as large tracts of trees disappear, so do portions of the aqueous reservoir that feeds the local rainmaking machine...
Putin has already made headway in one area: restoring Russians' faith in themselves. His blunt, occasionally coarse style and energetic demeanor have so galvanized the electorate that he is all but a lock to swing into office as President--barring an unexpectedly low turnout or a last-minute erosion of popularity...
...sucking up too much bandwidth, have begun blocking access to the site. Gnutella, which doesn't require a centralized server, will be harder to shut down. But even if there is a way to disable Gnutella, so what? "Every time a 42-year-old figures out how to lock something up," says Griffin, "a 14-year-old is going to figure out a new program...