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Moscow's millions knew something was afoot even as they dressed for work one morning last week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué ... Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again. Just 49 hours later, a brilliant flash lit the bleak plains of Central Asia, and a mighty bang echoed for miles ... The risk of atomic war still depends, as it has for years, on the simple decision...
Hate trying on clothes in stores? The Intellifit System, at right, makes it easier by taking your measurements using low-power radio waves, then suggesting the right size for you. Step into the glass booth, which looks like the Star Trek transporter, and 10 seconds later the system will have taken up to 200 measurements of your body. Currently being tested in six stores--including Macy's, Lane Bryant and David's Bridal--Intellifit will roll out in more shops this summer...
Motorola's iRadio software will let you listen to your favorite MP3s and Internet radio files on your cell phone, at right--or even stream them to your car stereo. But there's a catch: to make your music mobile, first you'll need to move it from your home PC to your cell phone, and that means you'll need a phone with lots of storage space for music. Still, iRadio--due in the fall--is a novel alternative to the iPod...
...Sayyaf, a terrorist organization in the Philippines, isn't shy about owning up to its dirty work. "We did it!" spokesman Abu Sulaiman crowed to a local radio station a few hours after a bomb on a ferry killed more than 100 passengers last February. At the time, Philippine officials scoffed at the claim because they didn't think the group had the ability to pull off such a deadly attack. (It wasn't until eight months later that the authorities acknowledged that Abu Sayyaf was indeed responsible.) Sulaiman didn't want to be taken so lightly last week...
...Sayyaf rebels, who have joined with renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim guerrilla group that once agitated for an independent state. Abu Sayyaf, moreover, has promised further attacks in urban areas. "We will find ways and means to inflict more harm," Sulaiman told the radio host...