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AUSTRALIAN JOURNEYS On the Offbeat Track Mission: Patrol At sea with the border watchers of Torres Strait The Gift of Prayer Behind the walls of a Carmelite monastery Speaking Stones Digging into the ancient past at Riversleigh Travelers' Rest A roadhouse oasis in the remote Northern Territory Wet and Wondrous Rafting the wild reaches of the Franklin River The Gospel Run Taking the church to the people of the Outback Press Gang Getting the nation's news out at the Australian Super Bowl Inside the myth-filled Wolfe Creek meteorite crater Unseen Gladiators Keeping the Melbourne Cricket Ground alive Hands...
...couple-of-years-hence look. Americans of the next '30s, the movie tells us, will still wear vintage sneakers (Converse 2004), drink Ovaltine and get home deliveries from FedEx. (We know this thanks to some of the most obtrusive product placement since Cast Away.) And morose gumshoes will obsessively patrol the streets for sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot - "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection of short stories published in 1950 - is another gloss on Blade Runner. The cop here is Spooner (Will Smith), investigating the death by defenestration...
...PATROL: The U.S. 1st Cavalry is still hunting Baghdad's bad guys...
...neighborhood, you can hardly miss it. From his headquarters at Camp Victory, a sprawling base 10 miles west of downtown Baghdad, Chiarelli commands seven brigades comprising 29,000 soldiers and several thousand humvees, Bradley vehicles and Abrams tanks. At any given time, several groups of vehicles are on patrol or conducting raids, raising a huge dust cloud and a god-awful din. The base abuts Baghdad's most hostile districts, Khadra, Ghazalia and Abu Ghraib, which makes it a target of almost daily mortar attacks. Those areas are known to harbor al-Qaeda cells and secret bombmaking factories...
...pricier but more effective option is a filter that you download from the Internet. Of the three programs I tested, Cyber Patrol, Cybersitter and Net Nanny, only one seemed impervious to smut: Cybersitter. This $40 program (available at cybersitter.com can run in a stealth mode so your kids don't notice it's there. When they try to log on to a blocked site, they are presented with either a blank page or a standard error message that reads, "This page cannot be displayed." Cybersitter works on e-mail, instant messaging, newsgroups and file-sharing sites. A System Snooper feature...