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...other day, while tottering home in black velvet stilettos and a backpack that weighed more than a small child, I found myself waiting for a Mass. Ave. traffic light to change. After politely refusing two homeless persons’ solicitations, I occupied myself with the conversation next to me. “I love that music!” said one girl, gesturing to that ubiquitous street musician who plays a gourd attached to a string. “It’s pretty soulful,” her companion agreed.“I kind of wish we could...
...wreckage, police found what amounted to a bomb factory. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were uncovered--and one was already tucked inside a backpack. The upshot: Jemaah Islamiah, the Southeast Asian network of militants to which Azahari allegedly belonged, was almost certainly planning new attacks, and Azahari had been training new bombmakers. Last Friday security forces found a bombmaking video at a house they suspect Noordin had recently occupied. Police say the tape contained confessions by the Oct. 1 bombers in which they declared they would go straight to paradise upon their death. Says a senior Indonesian...
...background and aged between 20 and 31. In most cases the suspects were seized as they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near...
...developed a robotic exoskeleton to help the elderly and disabled walk and even lift heavy objects like the jug of water above. It's called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL. (The inventor has obviously never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Its brain is a computer (housed in a backpack) that learns to mimic the wearer's gait and posture; bioelectric sensors pick up signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles, so it can anticipate movements the moment the wearer thinks of them. A commercial version is in the works. Just don't let it near...
...said, "I've got something really special you can do, but you have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they drove, he was stripped of his backpack, pens and belt, and was blindfolded, hooded and thrown into the back of another car. "There was a bad 10 minutes in there where I'm thinking, 'You are really an idiot,'" he says. "'You're like Mr. Magoo. You just wander over to the Middle East and, literally, within...