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There are many such devices on the market, and they're quite easy to use. They come in three basic flavors: pocket drives (the iPod qualifies as one), portable drives and desktop drives. The more compact the drive, the more you'll pay per gigabyte of storage space. For example: Seagate's nifty pocket model, which resembles a yoyo, provides 5 GB of storage for about $200 or less, depending on where you buy (compare prices at cnet.com; for product details, see seagate.com). Seagate's larger yet slim 100 GB portable runs about $220 and up. The Maxtor OneTouch...
...Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There ... Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken...
...overreach. And an Israeli official notes that in private negotiating sessions, Rice has a clever way of pushing hard on an issue, even if only to elicit a vague agreement. But then she immediately doubles down. "She'll restate it in a firmer way," says this official, "and then pocket it as a commitment." Says an Arab diplomat: "This one is nimble, very nimble...
...make the trip, the players sacrificed more than a few days of class to compete: airfare, hotel, and meal expenses, which added up to more than $500 per person, were paid out of pocket...
...promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces a $25,000 legal bill that, because he was working on his behalf, not his employer's, he must pay out of his own pocket. It was a pointed reminder to reporters -- and would-be reporters on the Internet -- that the laws of libel don't stop at the borders of cyberspace. "It definitely had a chilling effect on me," says Meeks...