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...button, and your channel-changer starts making a shrill beeping noise, allowing you to track it down easily. How do you keep from losing the Remote Finder? Attach it to your TV with the included Velcro strip. You can still carry it around the house when hunting particularly elusive prey. --By Wilson Rothman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: How to Find That Wandering Remote Control | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...team fell prey to weak doubles matches but won a close contest, 5-4. The Yardlings lost two of its three paired matches but proved strong in singles by wining four of six contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Batmen, Racquetmen Win; Laxmen Lose | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...entertainment, he had said: horses, peanuts, characters in the crowd. Sounds like benign fun. But suddenly ghosts emerged from my family’s history: kids from the block, distant cousins, parents of my pre-school friends, characters from every facet of the past—all had fallen prey to their addictions, borrowed money from everyone around, and finally become official pariahs, excommunicated.Sufficiently scared, I steered clear of gambling (or at least, didn’t seek it out) for five semesters, until a slow reading period night in January found me at a friend’s frat...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hedging Your Bets | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...team fell prey to weak doubles matches but won a close contest, 5-4. The Yardlings lost two of its three paired matches but proved strong in singles by wining four of six contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Batmen, Racquetmen Win; Laxmen Lose | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to avoid just such oppression as the Mafia offers, a few among them formed a new Mafia in the new country. In the crowded 'Little Italys' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential of bootlegging ... There was enough intraorganizational feuding to fill a graveyard ... To stop the killing, said [the Mob's modern founding father Salvatore] Maranzano, the gangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

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