From left, Jackie Chan at the security fair in Hong Kong; security at the G-8 summit in Japan; President Bush gave Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a Segway in June; and a security drill in Jinan, China, ahead of the Olympics. (Photos, from left: Associated Press; Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA; Israeli GPO; Reuters) The Segway Personal Transporter’s days as a high-tech dream have long since passed, but it can’t seem to shed its nerdy sheen as cameras click at the G-8 summit meeting and at events leading up to the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. This week, bloggers were having fun at the expense of the Chinese counterterrorism forces, who were photographed (above right) training for possible terrorist attacks during the Olympics. Unfortunately, the aggressive stances of the gun-toting men were undermined by the gizmo. “Laugh...
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