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...from a long list of banned items, including tripods, mobile phones and video cameras. And if the guards don't get your equipment, the thieves might: pick-pockets work the lines, hoping to snatch some of the dazzling array of photographic technology on display. (Travelers' tip: stick black masking tape over the brand name on your camera...
...with Timmy the Living Doll. But when I programmed it for the first time after coming home one Saturday night--the last I would ever spend outside my apartment--I decided to try to impress it, so I'd get pooled with the smart people. I asked it to tape Meet the Press, Full Metal Jacket and some British sitcom called Keeping Up Appearances...
Still, when I looked at the list of shows it planned to tape for me in the future, I was creeped out. TiVo thought I would enjoy Boy Meets World, Moesha and an Olsen twins movie called To Grandmother's House We Go. I spent my entire Sunday afternoon using the special thumbs-up, thumbs-down button to try and set it straight. I gave thumbs-down to figure skating, Hollywood Squares, Judge Judy and The View. Yet when I came back from getting the laundry, I caught it taping another Boy Meets World. I went into a clicking rage...
...next night I came home to find that for some reason, my TiVo now thought I was a stoner, perhaps because of the three thumbs ups I gave to The Jerk. It was planning to tape not only The Secret Life of Ants but also a documentary about termite mounds and a National Geographic Explorer about educating gorillas. I went through three bags of Tostitos during a termite special...
...hiding from the gunman who is thought to have executed her boyfriend by the roadside and trussed her up to keep for later, Joanne Lees stepped out of the inky dark of the central Australian desert night. Her hands bound so tightly her wrists were bleeding, and with electrical tape looped round her neck and gagging her mouth, the 27-year-old British tourist stumbled into the headlights...