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Home monitoring has long appealed to people who are often away from their home, or those concerned for elderly parents living alone. For years, there have been ways to wire your home with gadgets - not just smoke alarms and security systems, but cameras, sensors and panic buttons - the key word being "wire." New wireless technologies and broadband Internet connections enable people to set up more advanced systems without a headache or holes in the wall. One innovator, iControl, combines wireless monitoring with easy Web access and a little home automation in an interesting and expandable system...
...when the surprise attack of planes struck the edifice, Don Ross didn't think about the future. He ran to his station, where he and his men worked to keep the electricity on in the giant structure. Then a blast of white-hot smoke whipped through a ventilation shaft and hit Ross full in the face, blinding him. He ordered everyone else out as, for 15 minutes, he struggled to keep the power running. When he had nearly finished the job, he collapsed. He was dragged from his station, but when he heard that smoke was filling another room...
When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph of smoke rising over Beirut, side by side with the unaltered version of the same scene, the first thing I thought was: which is supposed to be the scary one? If I saw either cloud of smoke rising from a bomb blast in my own city, I wouldn't be worried much about where it fell on the Pantone color wheel. (More-elaborate comparisons of the two altered photos, which led Reuters to pull over 900 pictures by photographer Adnan Hajj, have been springing up on YouTube; best to search on "Reuters," perhaps...
...draw straws to see who would have to dive in and get it. You'd go by touch and hope it was killed." But the risks were all part of the thrill. Nowadays, he says mournfully, "You can't do anything without a license. You can't even smoke in the pub anymore...
...village, but it's noisy outside," says Diah Bassar, 20. An understatement, perhaps. The sound of warfare is inescapable. The sharp crack of outgoing artillery rounds from Israeli positions just across the border is accompanied by the door-slamming sound of exploding shells nearby. Dirty clouds of smoke and dust blossom on the rocky hillsides. The flames and smoke of brush fires sparked by shelling add to the noonday haze and turn vast expanses of countryside into sterile charred deserts. Jets swoop overhead, dropping massive bombs that leave huge towering columns of smoke, the blast carried for miles...