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...daughter, she loved that thing,” Avery says, reminsicing about the hours of peace while her daughter Angela—now two years old—entertained herself inside the “activity mat...
...actually wrestled a back-up guy,” Jantzen said after pinning Pierce. “One of their top guys [sophomore Eric Norgaard] didn’t wrestle. If he was on the mat it would have been a little tougher...
More sedate infants may prefer Barney's Move 'n Groove Dance Mat from Fisher-Price ($30, 1 1/2 years and older, available in July). It's a big pressure-sensitive pad with an animatronic Barney at one end. The mat plays Barney standards, and when a kid stands on the mat and dances, Barney senses the movements and dances along. There's also a keyboard at one end so kids can jam with the tune by stepping on the keys (think of the Chopsticks scene in Big). While Barney's musical oeuvre isn't exactly inspiring, as musical dinosaurs...
...place in Malaysia: in cheap hotels and guest houses outside Kuala Lumpur, in the beach resort of Port Dickson and in the cities of Melaka and Johore Baru across the strait from Singapore. "These groups use the Internet to set up the venue and date for their meetings," says Mat, the arms trader. "The messages are sent in encrypted codes. For example, MILF might want 3,000 M-16s and the al-Qaeda member will agree to pay for the weapons...
...That notification comes from middlemen like Mat, who are present at the initial meetings, then take over the ordering and delivery, working through the several criminal syndicates that control the region's flow of illegal arms. Due to the sensitivities and dangers involved, only one syndicate actually buys arms for the radical groups. Because the profits for the transactions are so high, official sources say, and al-Qaeda is still apparently able to command significant funds, non-Muslim criminals - some of them outwardly respectable businessmen - are a key part of the process. "The syndicate is based in Malaysia," says Mat...