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...apartment below Einhorn's recalled a "blood-curdling scream" and heavy banging one night in the fall of 1977. In a neighborhood of frat houses and party hounds, the student downstairs thought nothing of it. But the odor that followed within weeks was impossible to ignore, as was the putrid, dark-brown liquid that oozed down through the ceiling from Einhorn's apartment. The tenant and his roommate tried unsuccessfully to clean it away, then called the landlord, who called plumbers. Einhorn stubbornly refused to let the workers into a padlocked closet just off his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Archive: The Ira Einhorn Case | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...apartment below Einhorn's recalled a "blood-curdling scream" and heavy banging one night in the fall of 1977. In a neighborhood of frat houses and party hounds, the student downstairs thought nothing of it. But the odor that followed within weeks was impossible to ignore, as was the putrid, dark-brown liquid that oozed down through the ceiling from Einhorn's apartment. The tenant and his roommate tried unsuccessfully to clean it away, then called the landlord, who called plumbers. Einhorn stubbornly refused to let the workers into a padlocked closet just off his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Archive: The Ira Einhorn Case | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...uses--not surprising, since Sony invented it. The Clie PEG-N710C (great name!) is an upgrade of last year's feeble foray into the Palm clone market. There are two remarkable things about it. The first is its brilliant color screen, which makes the Palm m505's look putrid. The second is the built-in music player. This is the first Palm clone to feature a headphone jack and the ability to play MP3s--no simple trick, since the 33 MHz processor that powers these PDAs is too weak to drive MP3 music files. Sony created a neat hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning Palms | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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