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READING THE FUTURE Sony hopes its 1/2-in.-thick Reader, with a high-contrast screen and enough memory to hold the text of 80 books, will change the way we read. Sony's online bookstore has a few thousand eBook titles available for download...
...BOOGER, ONE OF YOUR TRADEMARK WORDS. In fact, I mainly used it to describe the kind of humor I do?"Oh, I write booger jokes." If you actually were to look through my oeuvre, there's probably only once ... a day that I used it. Only a few thousand times did I go to that well...
...contains a complex diagram -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Bowling has come a long way since Edward III of England banned the sport in 1366 because it was distracting his soldiers from archery practice. Bowling dates back at least to the Pharaohs, although for the first few thousand years, the game remained pretty much unchanged. You rolled a ball made of stone or wood or rubber at a bunch of pins and hoped for the best...
...FARRIS HASSAN, 16, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stole away to a war zone. Hassan, the U.S.-born son of Iraqi Americans, wanted to travel to Baghdad to better understand the plight of Iraq's citizens. "I thought I'd go the extra mile for that or, rather, a few thousand miles," says Hassan, who left the U.S. Dec. 11, notifying his family in an e-mail from the road. The teen bought a $900 plane ticket to Kuwait with money his parents had given him earlier. He took a taxi to the Iraq border but couldn't enter because...
...never bothered with disguise. "I'm a big guy with a bad temper, but I kept my cool. They had guns bigger than me. They have lots of them," he says. The ring has hundreds of collaborators, including teenagers, and they get what they want. Charles shelled out several thousand dollars for freedom, but his was one of many payoffs. On the average day, 10 kidnappings occur; 20 on Christmas weekend alone. Security experts estimate that the criminals net $100,000 a day. One of the country's most charismatic radio DJs was kidnapped last week. The ransom demand...