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...fleet of U.S. intelligence gathering satellites is an awesome apparatus that gives men and women sitting in Washington an ability to read the time on Osama bin Laden's wristwatch and listen in on his every cell phone conversation. That is, of course, if they know where he is. (And the Saudi terrorist-financier long ago figured out that his cell phone wasn't secure.) The point is that the most sophisticated intelligence technology is useless unless some of the simplest information is available...
...availability of game. He dresses in traditional Penan attire, a loincloth that covers his genitalia but leaves his muscular buttocks bare. His feet are disproportionately large and splayed, never having been confined by shoes. He wears necklaces fashioned from rattan and brightly colored beads, the bezel of a gilded wristwatch glinting incongruously beneath a mass of twine bracelets. (The watch has stopped at 3:50.) When he was young, his earlobes were distended by heavy weights. They now hang in 8-cm loops of flesh that almost touch his shoulders. They are his pride, along with the blowpipe he uses...
...news about a missing woman, young enough to be your daughter, or about a mother and father, terrified enough to be you. It becomes: Doesn't Condit look like the wound-tight kind of guy who might do away with an inconvenience or a threat? And what about that wristwatch box he tossed in the trash...
...every afternoon for about a week I sat at my little typing table and assembled the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer. It was a tiny little ship, no longer than a pencil and no wider than my thumb. But it was as fine and filigreed as the inside of a wristwatch. I painstakingly painted it to look like the picture on the box and then let it sit on my desk for the rest of the semester. Somehow, for me, it still represented Japan, or at least comforted me by evoking my adolescent view of Japan...
PAGING THE KIDDIES A California company says it has a techie way to allay a parent's worst fear--a device that finds a lost child. Wherify's Personal Location System packs a global positioning receiver, pager and wristwatch into a plastic bracelet. It will be available this summer for about $300, plus a $10-$25 monthly fee. Parents can page kids directly or pinpoint their location via phone or the Web. A version of the device for seniors is in the works...