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...wasn't around to see the attack. The crusading journalist and politician had died under mysterious circumstances two days earlier. And last week, just five days after his funeral, another female suicide bomber was apprehended as she tried to enter a posh downtown Moscow restaurant. A bomb inside a rucksack she was carrying exploded in the street, killing a Federal Security Service officer who was trying to defuse it. Shchekoch would have taken no satisfaction in being proved right. Chechen attacks inside Russia are nothing new. In September 1999, over 300 people were killed in a series of apartment block...
...What happened to Bruno Manser? The body of the Swiss adventurer-turned-activist, who would now be 46, has never been found, despite numerous searches by his Penan and European friends. Nor has any trace been found of his 30-kg rucksack. When he vanished, some suspected foul play: Manser had fallen on the wrong side of the logging interests in Borneo?who can be ruthless. There was talk of a bounty on his head and suspiciously heavy movements of police and loggers in the area at the time of his disappearance. Malaysia's politicians were fed up with...
...first speech after the defeat of the Japanese. It was a big mosaic, about 20-by-80 feet, depicting happy farmers, machinists and artists looking on in adoration as the original Great Leader spoke. In front of a stadium just past the mural, an old woman with an overstuffed rucksack and a younger man also with a heavy sack on his back got up and started wandering away, frightened of the foreigners and their minders...
...platoon pinned down by enemy fire will be able to pull a bird-size airplane out of a rucksack and use its video camera to spy over the next hill, behind buildings and beyond eyesight. Such micro-air vehicles will fly as far as six miles from their takeoff point for as long as two hours, feeding video images back to special military ground stations that will use the information to coordinate ground attacks and air strikes. Pentagon researchers are busy developing aviation assets even tinier than such mechanical sparrows. They're training honeybees, parasitic wasps and giant sphinx moths...
...report from the General Accounting Office details a rucksack full of problems: the $62,000 backpacks stopped soldiers from lifting their heads while on their bellies. When they rolled over, the packs lifted them far above the ground, pawing the air in what is known, in military parlance, as the "turtle-on-its-shell effect." After that was fixed, key components--radios, helmet display and computer--let water in and electronic radiation out. The batteries lasted for less than five of the required 12 hours' continuous use. And the Army doesn't know how to get new batteries...