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...Quetta, a friend was drinking tea with some Afghans, and two woman walked by in burqas. It was almost like the women were in mini-skirts. Hidden under yards of cloth, who knows...they could've been toothless hags. But the Afghan men's imagination was inflamed. They swooned when a breeze hugged the women and made it possible to see the slightest contour of their hips, a fluttering of the burqa around their ankles. So maybe you can understand why there are hundreds of Afghans perched on the wall of our compound watching the four or five women...
...that market, and by mid-December should have 20 titles ranging from new twists on old characters--Luigi's Mansion, a Mario spin-off--to Pikmin, the latest from Shigeru Miyamoto, the genius behind the Zelda franchise. The GameCube has abandoned its cartridge format; games now come on adorable mini...
Imagine a robot small enough to crawl through pipes to check for chemical leaks or sneak under doors to spy on intruders. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the Mini Autonomous Robot Vehicle Jr. to do just that. Smaller than a cherry and powered by three watch batteries, MARV Jr. can cover 20 in. per min. on custom-made tracks fashioned from strips of latex balloons. Future versions may include miniature cameras, microphones and chemical microsensors...
CHEAP $130 SAMSUNG YP-20S MINI YEPP MP3 players are great because, unlike CD or cassette players of the Walkman ilk, they tend to fit in your pocket. The 64-MB Mini Yepp is so tiny it fits on a key chain. It's easy to set up and makes plenty of noise for its size. The only trick? Not losing it. www.samsungusa.com...
Although those Harvard men could not have known it at the time, their suggestions were crucial to the genesis of the mini-metropolis of mediocrity that has grown in southern Connecticut. Like its founder, Yale (the college) has always had delusions of grandeur; unfortunately, old Eli’s thirst for recognition in the face of a questionable pedigree is a vice Yalies have yet to kick...