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...Track him down the old-fashioned way, paying off locals until he's just around the corner, then surround him, strap on the night-vision gear, take out the guards and do him in. Problem: in the tribal lands of Pakistan, he's a hero, and the U.S. has few agents who can blend in among the people...
...that lets you buy theater tickets or restaurant bookings in any city in the U.S., Europe and Asia by dialing into a 24-hour call center. But of course, many of today's expensive accessories were once seen as purely functional; think of the wristwatch. Still, you don't strap your phone to your skin - not yet. Vertu president Nigel Litchfield predicts phones will morph into jewelry, from earrings to - calling Dick Tracy - wristwatches. Until then, we're a little wary about plunking down several months' salary for a phone we're still going to leave in the back...
DIED. NILS BOHLIN, 82, Swedish seat-belt inventor, who in 1959 developed the harness that today is standard equipment; in Transas, Sweden. His safety belt supports the upper and lower parts of the body with one continuous strap fastened by a buckle placed on the side...
...first civilian pilots selected for the U.S. armed antihijacking corps, in 1974. Since 9/11 he has devoted hundreds of hours to lobbying Congress and talking to the media. He has persuaded reluctant Washington bureaucrats that pilots have a unique case: "We're the ones who strap our asses to the target every...
...most implausible film ever made." The Village Voice put its sassiest junior movie critic (me) on the Meyer beat, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm. I'd followed Meyer since around 1960, when I saw "Teas" at an "art" theater in Philadelphia, but I didn't strap him on till the color comedies. Later I was vagrantly known as the guy who had named "Beyond the Valley" one of the ten best films of the '60s. (I don't have the clipping, but it's entirely plausible - I quite liked the movie...