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...range, visibility and visual field of their beat cops. The Chicago Police Department, for instance, has 38 Segways, which cops use to patrol the airports and large public events. It will soon buy 20 more. "It's a low-key force multiplier," says Jonathan Lusher, senior V.P. at the mall security firm IPC International, which owns scores of Segways. "It allows us to have our officers in more places in less time...
This realization was only strengthened by a long-overdue project of mine: typing out my journals from elementary school. Those from third and fourth grade are full of exploits of all kinds, from tramping through the water of half-melted streams to shopping at the local mall...
...increase, so does the demand for tiger skins, along with ground tiger bones, whiskers and penises for use in traditional Chinese medicine. A large, unblemished pelt can fetch over $10,000, and powdered tiger bones sell for hundreds of dollars per kilogram. Neighboring Tibet has become a virtual shopping mall for tigers. In an undercover visit in 2005, conservationist Wright filmed vendors in Lhasa hawking dozens of pelts and swatches in the back rooms of stores and on street corners-an exposé that led the Dalai Lama to condemn the trade...
...Hara, 54, longs to return to her seaside home in Nahariya. Meanwhile, she tries to enjoy the Herzliyya beach and the mall nearby. But when she came across customers haggling over jewelry the other day, she couldn't stomach it. "Imagine, thinking about buying jewelry with everything that's going on. I don't want things to be normal." A visitor reminds her that she has just spoken of how much she longs for normalcy, for herself, for the state of Israel. "Thank you for reminding me," she says, and smiles...
...that doesn't exist is the ability to walk out of the store with a computer. The new stores won't carry inventory, so consumers will have to wait a few days for delivery. That lowers operating costs, but Vitelli says the impatience of the gotta-have-it-now mall shopper is not on Dell's side: "Are you going to go to the restaurant, look at the menu and say, 'That's great. Send me the meal in 10 days...