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Your article about the risk of terrorism [Aug. 21] brought back a bad memory from 13 years ago. Fifteen minutes into a flight I was on, a man walked from his seat into the galley, armed with a plastic jar and a matchbox. My worst fears were confirmed a few minutes later upon seeing the ashen-faced flight attendant. We'd been hijacked. It seems that not much has changed since then. It is better to strengthen security systems and give up some freedoms than it is to accept a high risk of more attacks. SAVI MULL Lucknow, India...
...While I was talking to Seth?s parents, Seth climbed up and down from their laps, explored the infant scale and took a matchbox car out of his pocket and raced it along the floor. In every way, he appeared and acted like a healthy active four-year-old boy. I summed up my findings to Seth?s family, but they just sat and stared at me blankly, making no attempts to stand or get Seth dressed...
DIED. LESLIE SMITH, 87, co-founder of Lesney Products, maker of Matchbox cars; in north London. After World War II, he established a die-casting shop with a fellow veteran and sold his first toy, a small brass road roller, in 1952. The next year Lesney introduced its first Matchbox cars--cement mixers, dump trucks and road rollers--and a decade later was selling 50 million of them a year...
...biking to work with the controls on your handlebars, or docking your iPod at your computer and selecting songs from the other side of the room. Just snap the AirClick ($39.99) to the top of your iPod to control it wirelessly - within a range of 18 m - using a matchbox-sized remote that attaches to an armband or bicycle frame. For more information, check out www.griffintechnology.com/dealers/. Now if they could just figure out how to listen to iPod while scuba diving...
...biking to work with the controls on your handlebars, or docking your iPod at your computer and selecting songs from the other side of the room. Just snap the AirClick ($39.99) to the top of your iPod to control it wirelessly?within a range of 18 m?using a matchbox-sized remote that attaches to an armband or bicycle frame. For more information, check out www.griffintechnology.com/dealers/. Now if they could just figure out how to listen to iPod while scuba diving...