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...appliances than they have for computers. Appliances have to be cheap, simple and reliable; nobody is going to buy a $2,000 vacuum cleaner that requires a Ph.D. in engineering and has to be rebooted twice a day. Leaving the ivory tower for the iRobot team was a culture shock. "We had to learn about plastics," Angle sighs. "We had to learn about Far East manufacturing. We learned that if you haven't had a sit-down, drag-out, pound-on-the-table argument over a nickel, you don't understand consumer products...
...rode to power, meanwhile, is enjoying a modest revival. Ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, Milosevic's own pick for President in elections at the end of this month, now claims 12% support, up from 4% in May. Those who hoped that the spectacle of the former President in the dock would shock Serbs into recognizing the crimes done in their name are having to rethink. And worse may lie ahead. This week prosecutors begin the second part of their case against Milosevic - for his responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Croatia. In this phase of the trial, he is expected...
Legal theatrics veered toward tragedy in another Paris courtroom last week, as an appellate tribunal freed convicted war criminal Maurice Papon from jail. The ruling - based on a new law allowing aged or ill inmates to be released if imprisonment is judged a threat to their lives - sparked widespread shock and protests. Papon was found guilty in 1998 of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in the deportation of 1,690 Jews to Nazi death camps during the German occupation of France. Despite his well-known activities in the collaborationist Vichy regime, Papon escaped punishment after...
...that since slipping back into the country from Iran early this year, Hekmatyar has sent aides to meet with Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives in the eastern city of Khost and in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. The fear is that Hekmatyar has begun providing al-Qaeda's shock troops with the direction they have lacked since bin Laden went to ground. Says a senior Afghan intelligence official: "Hekmatyar's terrorist experience within Afghanistan is greater than al-Qaeda...
...like the fish knew something was about to happen. I had tied up the boat and was walking to my home for a siesta, when there was an incredible boom and the ground felt like a giant was shaking it. I was knocked off my feet. Everyone was in shock for a minute or two, then people were screaming, 'Run, run, the water is coming!' Next thing I know, I'm swimming near the top of the mosque." He points to the fat, green onion of the dome, towering six or seven meters above the colorful chaos of wooden stilt...