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THERE’S THAT OLD joke about the girl who thought her blind date was so ugly she put a paper bag over his head and then, just to be safe, another over her head in case his fell off. The Eton BoostTurbine 2000 takes similar precautions. While its 2000mAH lithium-ion battery will fully recharge your depleted cell phone battery, it also comes with a hand crank to whip up a little more power when its own battery is D.O.A. At first glance Eton’s 7-ounce charger looks like most of the other rechargeable battery packs out there. There’s a power-out USB port you attach your digital device for recharging . The power-in, mini-USB port connects to an electrical outlet or a computer’s USB port to recharge the BoostTurbine’s own lithium-ion battery. Pushing the power button on the charger starts the re-juicing process and conveniently lets you check on the BoostTurbine’s remaining battery as represented by four LED lights. What separates the BoostTurbine from other brickish cadets in the r...

It's the smallest city in the smallest country in the country, and I am lucky enough to live directly in the center of it. Regardless of the fact that the city's less than two square miles (two-and-a-half of which are technically water) we have got a vibrant and booming downtown area. It is not a very large downtown area, however the smaller space and easy to access streets which make it an eminently walkable downtown. Our stores are plentiful and diverse - there are jewelry boutiques, pizza joints, a record shop, the coffee shop that has been my next house as I had been writing my master's thesis, fish markets, gift stores, the inevitable Dunkin' Donuts, a food market, a bridal shop, even a cheese shop (though, sadly, it is not staffed by Michael Palin and a fleet of bouzouki players). Taking a quick walk around the downtown area also demonstrates that every one of these stores knows precisely what to do to attract the customers off the street and into their establishm...