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...urban areas. It was no coincidence that although Israel withdrew its troops from less than 40 percent of the West Bank and Gaza during the Oslo years, it was happy to include most Palestinian urban areas in the territory it handed over - better to have your troops and tanks surround the town than to be facing a potential ambush around every corner. And in Intifada II, the Palestinians have automatic rifles. So the Israeli troops may be able to protect themselves for a few hours, as they did on Thursday with helicopter gunships circling overhead, but any long-term deployment...
...mysteries surround the incident of July 7. First, is it possible that, as police allege, Grubman intentionally backed her SUV into a line of people, then left the scene as victims bled and moaned for help? A more interesting question is, Why have so many people responded to the tragedy with an unabashed victory dance on her figurative grave? Answering the second question requires understanding the Hamptons, a grand but tortured resort area just 100 miles outside New York City that attracts a flashy spectrum of celebrities, from Alec Baldwin to Tommy Hilfiger to Martha Stewart. It's a place...
...Since we're all getting DVD players with tremendous surround sound capability known as Dolby Digital 5.1, the labels think it's about time they started selling us an entirely new format maximized for this new medium. To paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black: yes, this means you're going to have to buy the White Album again. "The MP3 revolution diverted us for a while," one record producer told me recently. "But things are back on track now. DVD audio is the future, and you won't find it on Napster...
...each other in a car, they also feel safe from the rest of the world. It acts as a buffer-zone from the daily chaos that is life. Cars—at least higher-end cars—are relatively noise-free because of their elaborately comfortable seating and surround sound systems, creating a miniature world detached from the real world. (For the record, my ’90 Toyota Tercel offers neither comfortable seating nor a noise-free environment, and yet the buffer-zone is still—thank goodness—maintained...
RUMBLE SEAT If you think digital surround sound is for sissies and you've got a spare $16,000, the Odyssee Motion Simulator may be right up your alley. Four hydraulic "actuators" rattle and shake your La-Z-Boy like an amusement-park ride in perfect synch with such action-adventure movies as Twister and Jurassic Park. The device moves your seat only five-eighths of an inch, but that's enough to convince your body that a certain T. rex is getting closer every second...