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...meet with anyone or get any tips before the chase started? I had some obvious advice like, "Don't use your cell phone," and some then some really cool advice like, "Don't take tons of cash because you might lose it all. Instead, use an ATM, but only use it right before you travel." The other people I met were victims of the database state, people who had suffered as a result of details being lost or misappropriated. I met a girl who couldn't get a job because she's on some criminal database as a shoplifter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Escape the Surveillance State | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

Craig Robinson’s Nick, married in the present day, is also a very funny character, especially during a cocaine-fueled recap of the “Terminator” series or in a lewd phone call to his then nine-year-old wife. He also manages to pull off a surprisingly listenable cover (or is it a debut performance?) of The Black-Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get It Started?...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...spur a cycle of retaliation. "In the face of a regime that rules by increasingly persistent clampdowns and raids, a person who tries to defend himself does not think of himself as an insurgent. Excuse me, but that is simply a person acting in self-defense," Giorgberidze said by phone from Copenhagen, where she lives in exile along with many former fighters from the North Caucasus regions of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. (See pictures of the suicide bombings in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Bombings: A New Cycle of Retaliation? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Those question may be unanswered for some time. On Monday the mobile phone that Gao had briefly been answering over the weekend went dead, again severing his contact with the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Dissident's Mysterious Reappearance | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...vigil began in the late morning as roughly a dozen people lined up to ask about missing family members. Igor Yegorov was there to look for his wife. "She went to work as usual this morning, and I can't reach her. Hopefully it's just that the cell-phone networks are down. But I don't know," he says, pale and shaking as he waited to check the hospital list. By late afternoon, the flow of ambulances to the hospital had stopped, and service had been restored to the rest of the metro system, which was not damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Bombings: Are Islamist Rebels Behind Them? | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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