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...profit founded by the late Steve Irwin, the "Crocodile Hunter." The zoo had inked a deal with the government to help save the wombat, mainly through research support. "It's all about the marketing and money, mate," chimed in Mannion, an Irwin look-alike in his Aussie safari outfit. That view won over Alan Horsup, a conservation officer who spent the past two decades in an often lonely quest to pull the northern hairy-nose back from the edge of extinction. "I didn't like it at first," he said of corporate sponsorship. "But bloody hell...
...beginning, Usman joined a Kashmiri militant outfit, but soon he banded together with other Pakistanis, including Saeed, to form LeT. "The Kashmiris appreciated us because we were good fighters," says Usman. "Unlike the Kashmiris, who only did hit-and-run attacks, we stayed and fought for hours." That confidence, he says, came from the training. "We were fearless. The Koran tells us that if we are martyred, we are successful. It is the misfortune of my life that I was not martyred...
...made Elephantom early favorites.Next up was Disband, or Shy October, or Caitria O’Neill; a pre-show name change confused the Tommy Doyle’s staff, but for continuity’s sake let’s just call them Kathleen Turner Overdrive.The viola and acoustics outfit brought a slower, softer, Ingrid Michaelson sound to the stage that was well received, but ultimately too calm to retain attention. Until they nail down their sound, they would do much better in a coffeeshop setting, but for a band that was put together just for this show, they definitely...
Photo Finish. Canon's new $99 SELPHY Compact Printer, the CP780, promises to be faster and have better image quality than its predecessors. It has a 2.5-inch LCD screen to preview pictures, and you can outfit it with a Bluetooth adapter, which lets you send pictures from your cell phone to the printer...
...years ThePirateBay.org has been public enemy number one for the music business and Hollywood. By the time police raided the outfit's offices in 2006, the war of words - and legal threats - had been years in the making. And no wonder. The three main defendants certainly have Hoffman's flair for the dramatic, and more than a share of the late Yippie leader's propensity to stick it in the eye of the establishment. The site proudly displays its amassed correspondence from corporate lawyers who have written by the dozen to give notice of copyright infringement. Take this response...