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...Thembi in 2004, when she was 19. I gave her a tape recorder to document her life and her struggle with AIDS. Over the course of a year, Thembi recorded many of her most intimate moments: interviews with her family and friends, late-night dancing with her boyfriend, the sounds of her baby Onwabo and the moment when she told her father she had AIDS...
...target of an assassination attempt in June 1981. While speaking at a rally in Tehran, suffered severe injuries to his right hand and arm when a bomb hidden in a nearby tape-recorder exploded...
Faced with high technology and drones, the Taliban has resorted to its own innovations. When the militants ruled in Afghanistan, it was common to find spools of discarded cassette tape hanging from tree branches as a warning against banned pop music. They've since devised more lethal uses for the recording medium. After a recent roadside bombing of an American convoy in Ghazni province that killed three Afghan police officers, streams of tape were found ahead of the blast crater. The reflective quality of the tape, soldiers said, had allowed militant spotters to be forewarned of the arrival of enemy...
...year to separate the remains. But while DNA tests could distinguish body parts and even piles of dust, they could not name them. At a mass burial on May 14 beside the scorched earth where the church once stood, 18 of the coffins were pasted with strips of white tape on which was written UN ELD - for Unknown, Eldoret - and a number to distinguish them from each other. Trinkets, scraps of clothes and, in one case, a wheelchair had identified the other 20 victims...
...make them, because I thought there was yet another interesting point of view to the material. I think my friend Elvis Mitchell put it really well when the first Harry Potter book was made into a movie, that it was a book on tape on film. I have no interest in doing that. With Lemony Snicket, the studio wasn't so much excited about making the film as they were in launching the franchise. I mean, if you really think through what readers of those books want, this is basically Night of the Hunter for kids. Jim Carrey...