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...think like a laptop owner. Your precious machine, filled with irreplaceable data, is less safe than ever. In 2001 there were 591,000 laptops reported stolen--up 53% from the previous year (desktop computer thefts, by contrast, are falling). Luckily, there are precautions you can take, from better locks to laptop insurance. And if the unthinkable happens, there are even ways to track your lost laptop on the Internet...
...think like a laptop owner. Your precious machine, filled with irreplaceable data, is less safe than ever. In 2001 there were 591,000 laptops reported stolen - up 53% from the previous year (desktop computer thefts, by contrast, are falling). Luckily, there are precautions you can take, from better locks to laptop insurance. And if the unthinkable happens, there are even ways to track your lost laptop on the Internet...
...This is not the first time the rinpoche (meaning "precious one," as reincarnate lamas are called) has broadened the scope of what he wryly terms his "usual sort of profession." In 1992, after meeting director Bernardo Bertolucci through friends in London, he served as an adviser on Bertolucci's Little Buddha, parts of which were shot in Bhutan. Then in 1998 he brought a small crew that included several of his longtime Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with...
...recalls Tinh. "I was horrified." France recently signed an agreement giving Nuoc Mam Phu Quoc an appellation d'origine contrôlée, the same status given to Cham-pagne vintners. Which just proves what nuoc mam lovers have always believed: a good fish sauce is as precious as a fine wine...
...rice are being unloaded under the UN oil-for-food program, the director waves a hand around him and says, "We are surrounded by the enemy. American ships are just outside this port." And yet, on Iraq's side there is no deployment at all to protect this precious region which floats on a sea of oil, the key to Iraq's treasury. A few trenches have been dug through the desert, where sheep amble peacefully under the watchful eye of haughty Bedouin women. There are some soldiers, but hardly enough to defend the crucial oil fields that burn brightly...