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...files recording the "martyrs" of the Gaza Strip. Here too is the rubber bullet that killed Wael. Its thin coating of black rubber was stripped away by the impact, leaving it a ridged, fawnish metal ball about half an inch in diameter and as heavy as a wristwatch. Before anyone invented high-tech machine guns and tank shells, this was the kind of bullet people used when they wanted to kill one another...
HOURGLASS > SUNDIAL > VILLAGE CLOCK > POCKET WATCH > PENDULUM CLOCK > ALARM CLOCK > WRISTWATCH > DIGITAL WATCH...
...FACED WRISTWATCH FOR CARDIAC PATIENTS, ONE DIAL DRIVEN BY THE WEARER'S PULSE, THE OTHER KEEPING A CONSTANT PACE SO WEARERS CAN GAUGE THEIR HEART RATE...
...Darien Gap, Castano is growing restless. He eyes his wristwatch. It's late afternoon, and he and his bodyguards are eager to resume their hunt for the retreating FARC back in the jungle. "We'll catch them by dawn," he says confidently. Given his popularity among Colombians, will Castano one day run for political office? Disgusted, he shakes his head. "With my past? With the things I've done? Never. It's a sign of how bad the situation is in Colombia that people would even think of me like that." He adds, "No, I'm just a temporary antidote...
ITEM: Deke Slayton's Omega Speedmaster wristwatch (4) ESTIMATE: $8,000 to $12,000 WENT FOR: $28,750 COMPARE WITH: NASA's Kodak-made 460 camera...