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...that close to him again. A turncoat Mob informant later confirmed that Provenzano, who's been on the lam in Sicily for the past four decades, had indeed been in Mezzojuso that morning. But the capo dei capi was some 200 m up the hill in a smaller shack when cops arrived at the main house. So Provenzano, who some believe was tipped off to the raid, hunkered down as investigators finished their work below. "He was lucky," an undercover agent involved in the raid recalled. "If he'd been inside that day, we would have had him." Three years...
...have dog pemmican with my tea.'" When the rhymes flow, the ideas buried within go down more smoothly, and on All Life Styles, their vision of hipster utopianism sounds both typically juvenile and wonderfully sweet: "Whether in the high rise where you live like Rhoda or in the shack and you live like Yoda/Once again it's on, like a brand new morn/Beatsie Beatsie Boys here to keep you all warm." When they're being idiots, the aging Beastie Boys are still quite brilliant...
Since everyone in a family has a different idea of where to put the remote control, finding it can be frustrating. Finally, technology can help locate these wanderers. Radio Shack's 8-in-1 Universal Remote ($80) comes with a Remote Finder, a small device that transmits a radio-frequency call to the remote itself. Press a 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...
...islets. In 1988, the dispute sparked a naval battle between China and Vietnam, in which more than 70 sailors died. In subtler declarations of ownership, Vietnam last week launched a holiday cruise to the barren archipelago, and Taiwan in late March marked its territory by erecting a bird-watching shack on one of the islands. At least there's a sensible money-grubbing reason for some of this squabbling: the Spratlys sit athwart vital shipping lanes, fishing grounds and potentially vast oil and natural-gas fields...
...months and a meager $6000 advance from The Lyons Press later, Carlson, armed with “a tiny 20-dollar Radio Shack mini-tape-recorder,” was alone on an April 16, 2003 flight to Qatar...