Bose OE2i

Bose has slowly built a reputation for innovative audio products, from tiny speakers that get extremely loud, to standard-setting noise cancellation technology that many competitors have since mimicked. So when the company releases a simple pair of headphones, it's almost surprising. The Bose OE2i, at $179.95 (direct), offers solid performance and iPhone controls built into the cable. Aside from that, there's not much else to note. The audio quality is quite good, but there are other options in this price range, of both earphone and headphone varieties, that offer more impressive sound performance.

Design
Offered in all black or all white (our test unit was black), the OE2i looks similar to the popular QuietComfort 3 ($349.95, 4 stars).?It's also?a supra-aural headphone pair, which means the cups sit on the ear instead of encircling and enclosing it. The?"OE" in the product name stands for "on ear," and as you might have guessed, there's also a Bose IE2 ($99.95, 4 stars).? The supra-aural design is great for comfort, but not so great for audio leakage?unless you're in a noisy environment, your coworkers or anyone nearby is likely to hear a bit of your music, too.

The headband has ample padding for the top of your head, with metallic adjusting bands that extend or retract on either side. The earcups measure 2.3 by 2 inches, creating a roughly ear-sized oval shape in black plastic with the Bose logo branded across the middle in metallic paint. The insides are lushly padded black leather, just like the QuietComfort 3, with a small mesh opening in the center for sound to pass through. The cable is removable?and thus replaceable, which is a big plus?and connects to the left earcup.

In what's fast becoming a standard, perhaps at Apple's behest, the iPhone controls are located very close to the top of the cable, near your mouth. That's also where the mic is, which makes for clearer voice quality. And indeed, calls sound about as clear as one might expect on the iPhone, which isn't celebrated for its call clarity. However, it makes controlling the iPhone a blind task. You'll have to memorize which buttons are for Volume up or down, Track forward or backward, and so forth. It's fairly easy to accidentally press the wrong button, though Bose takes a little of the guesswork out of it by making the larger middle button, which answers or ends calls (and controls Play/Pause functions), slightly indented compared to the Volume/Tracking buttons.

A carrying pouch, which the headphones collapse and fold flat into for easy toting, is included with the pair. Bose also offers a less expensive model, the $149.95 (direct) OE2, which lacks the iPhone controls but is otherwise identical.

Performance
Not a subtle pair of earphones, the OE2i has boosted high frequencies and a full bass response, which makes it sound particularly good on pop and rock music. At maximum volume on tracks with deep bass, something peculiar happens: The drivers don't distort, even on challenging tracks like The Knife's "Silent Shout," which has a thunderous low end beat. However, the bass response seems too much for the actual earcup enclosures, as they can vibrate and audibly rattle a bit. Simply placing my fingers on the earcups muted the rattling. Once the rattling was gone, it was easy to enjoy clear, strong bass performance.

At more moderate listening levels, the bass sounded quite full and the rattling was never an issue. At times, however, it can sound like the midrange frequencies have been dampened a bit in favor of boosting the bass and, even more so, the high frequencies. This makes for what some might call an overly bright sound on some types of music. That can enhance clarity, and indeed the vocals on most songs stand out a bit more on the OE2i than on other headphone pairs. At times, however, the stringed instruments on John Adams' "The Chairman Dances" sounded a bit brighter and crisper than they needed to. On tracks like this, where bass response is more subtle, the low end seems to disappear a bit. There is no mistaking, however, that this is a headphone pair with a seriously sculpted frequency response?audiophiles seeking flat response, or bass fiends seeking headphones to blast at high volumes, for that matter, should look elsewhere.

The OE2i can't quite match the sonic performance of some similarly priced earphones and headphones. The Bowers & Wilkins C5 In-Ear Headphones ($179.95, 4.5 stars), a recent Editors' Choice, offer a slightly deeper bass response and the most secure fit you'll find in a pair of earphones. Bowers & Wilkins also makes an on-ear, supra-aural headphone pair, the P5 Mobile Hi-Fi Headphones ($299.95, 4.5 stars) which sound better than either the C5 or the OE2i?but cost significantly more. The Denon AH-D1100 ($199.99,? 4.5 stars) is a circumaural (around-the-ear) headphone option, and, for just $20 more, it offers a significant upgrade in audio performance over the OE2i. If the OE2i and C5 are bit out of your price range, the in-ear Shure SE215 ($119, 4 stars) is another recent Editors' Choice with excellent overall sound performance. Still, Bose, like Apple, is a brand that breeds loyalty. For those customers who do choose to purchase the OE2i, they aren't likely to be disappointed, even if the OE2i can't quite keep up with the stars of the Denon and B&W lineups.

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'The Rum Diary': Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson Tribute

LOS ANGELES ? Johnny Depp vividly recalls the first time he met Hunter S. Thompson, sparks flying as the author parted a bar crowd with a cattle prod and a Taser.

Seventeen years later, Depp is making good on one of his close friend's last wishes, producing and starring in a film adaptation of Thompson's "The Rum Diary," written in the early 1960s but not published until Depp stumbled on the manuscript a quarter-century after.

Depp and Thompson, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2005, bonded instantly at that first meeting in 1994, when the actor was spending Christmas in Aspen, Colo., near the author's home. A fan of Thompson's since reading the gonzo journalist's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" in his late teens, Depp jumped at the chance when a mutual friend asked if he wanted to meet him.

Depp was told to turn up at the tavern at midnight. Soon after, Thompson entered brandishing his cattle prod and Taser.

"People were hurling their bodies, leaping out of the way to try and save themselves from this maniac," Depp said in an interview. "Then he made his way to me. The sparks had died down, he just walked right up to me and put his hand out and said, `How do you do? My name is Hunter.'"

Thompson and Depp quickly discovered they both were born in Kentucky and shared many literary heroes, among them Ernest Hemingway and Nathaniel West. Around 2:30 that morning, they were at Thompson's house, where Depp admired a nickel-plated shotgun on the wall.

"'Would you like to fire it?'" Depp recalled Thompson saying. "I said, `Yeah. Great, man.' He says, `All right, great. We must build bombs.' So we built bombs in his sink out of propane tanks and nitroglycerin. Then we took them out back and he said, `All right, you get first crack.' So I leveled that 12-gauge and I blew it up ? 80-foot fireball.

"I think that was my kind of rite of passage with Hunter. I think that was my test that I was OK."

Depp went on to play Thompson's alter ego in the 1998 movie adaptation of "Fear and Loathing." While preparing for that role, Depp spent time in the basement of Thompson's home, sorting through boxes of "Fear and Loathing" artifacts ? "cherry stems and cocktail napkins and all these weird notations, and photographs of monkeys. Who knew what was in there?" Depp recalled.

Then he opened another box and found a manuscript titled "The Rum Diary" in red letters. He figured Thompson had not looked at it since writing it decades earlier, the story based on the author's experiences as a young reporter in Puerto Rico.

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Depp and Thompson passed pages back and forth. Within about half an hour, Depp had persuaded Thompson to publish the novel. In return, Thompson insisted they should do a film version.

They developed the project together for years, and Depp became even more committed to bringing the story to the screen after Thompson killed himself amid assorted maladies and declining health.

"There's nothing more delightful than to see an actor play a role that he puts everything into," said Graham King, a producer on "The Rum Diary."

"I'm not saying he doesn't put everything into every movie, but this was different. This was something that was so close to his heart. It wasn't a gig. It wasn't a job for him."

"Johnny is Hunter in many ways. Hunter set out to do something that no one else had done before, and I feel like Johnny does that in many things," said co-star Amber Heard. "He's doing exactly what he wants to do, and I think it's wonderful and important to fight to make projects that he feels have artistic integrity."

A box-office risk early in his career for oddball films that rarely made money, Depp has been able to call his own shots in the years since he became a Hollywood breadwinner with hits such as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Still, it was a challenge to find backers for "The Rum Diary," which stars Depp as Paul Kemp, a Thompson alter ego in his formative years, arriving in San Juan as an aimless tenderfoot who encounters corrupt developers despoiling an island paradise and discovers his purpose ? to take on "the bastards" wherever he finds them.

Aaron Eckhart co-stars as a slimy public relations man whose girlfriend (Heard) becomes Kemp's object of lust. The cast also includes Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Jenkins and Michael Rispoli.

To write the screenplay and direct, Depp and Thompson enlisted Bruce Robinson ("Withnail & I"), a filmmaker who recognized himself and Thompson as kindred spirits.

"We were writing in the same vernacular, a voice of comedic rage," Robinson said. "What are you going to have, a hand grenade or a word? Hunter chose the word."

Though Thompson was gone, Depp made him a spectral producer from beyond, insisting there be a chair with Thompson's name on the set, beside it an ashtray, a packet of Dunhill cigarettes, a bottle of Chivas Regal and a highball glass.

Each morning, Depp and Robinson would pour a drink for Thompson.

"Everybody was there for Johnny, and Johnny was there for the love of the man," Eckhart said. "That was palpable on the set, between Hunter's chair and their sacrament to him each day."

If Thompson were around to review his performance, Depp figures he would "come up with some unbelievably witty, clever remark that would just sort of chop me off at the ankles. ... And then seconds later, he would have praised it, I believe.

"When I called him for `Fear and Loathing,' I was scared that was the end of our friendship, because I had played him, I think, pretty close to the bone," Depp said. "I told him early on, `If I do this right, you might hate me forever.' He said, `Well it's a chance you've got to take, isn't it?' So I did it, but after `Fear and Loathing,' I called him and I said, `All right, you saw it? Do you hate me?'

"And I think by me saying, `Do you hate me?' he knew I was in pain. He couldn't stand the idea of (messing) with me, and he said, `No, no, man. It was like an eerie trumpet call over a lost battlefield.' I mean, that just came out of his mouth on the telephone. ... It doesn't get better."

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Calif. officer shooting suspect dies in custody

SACRAMENTO, Calif.?? A man suspected of shooting and wounding a northern California police officer died in the custody of Sacramento police, following a foot chase, authorities said Sunday night.

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Tyrone Smith, 32, was unresponsive in the back of a patrol car after being caught late Saturday night some seven hours after the shooting of the Twin Rivers police officer, Sacramento police said in a statement.

Paramedics were called who took Smith to a hospital, where he was declared dead, the statement said.

Police said the cause of death had not been determined, but a preliminary investigation showed no indication it was a result of police actions.

Smith ran from officers and jumped over fences after he was found, then refused to comply when they caught up with him and had to be forced to the ground and handcuffed, the statement said.

He again tried to flee and fell to the ground before he was put in the patrol car, police said.

The Twin Rivers officer, whose name has not been released, was in critical condition after being hit with several bullets, but is expected to have a full recovery after surgery Sunday.

"Doctors are very optimistic," Twin Rivers police spokesman William Cho told the Sacramento Bee.

The shooting occurred when the officer tried to pull over the suspect's vehicle Saturday afternoon, the Sacramento police statement said.

The suspect refused to stop, then after a short car chase got out of his vehicle and fled on foot. As the officer chased him, the suspect fired and hit the officer several times, the statement said.

Detectives believe the suspect got back in his vehicle and fled.

Paramedics who happened to be in the area quickly reached the officer and took him to the hospital, the statement said.

Police did not say why the officer tried to pull over the suspect when the incident began.

Several units of the Sacramento Police Department along with the city's Office of Public Safety and Accountability and the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office are investigating the two shootings.

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Bombings, beheadings? Stats show a peaceful world (AP)

WASHINGTON ? It seems as if violence is everywhere, but it's really on the run.

Yes, thousands of people have died in bloody unrest from Africa to Pakistan, while terrorists plot bombings and kidnappings. Wars drag on in Iraq and Afghanistan. In peaceful Norway, a man massacred 69 youths in July. In Mexico, headless bodies turn up, victims of drug cartels. This month eight people died in a shooting in a California hair salon.

Yet, historically, we've never had it this peaceful.

That's the thesis of three new books, including one by prominent Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Statistics reveal dramatic reductions in war deaths, family violence, racism, rape, murder and all sorts of mayhem.

In his book, Pinker writes: "The decline of violence may be the most significant and least appreciated development in the history of our species."

And it runs counter to what the mass media is reporting and essentially what we feel in our guts.

Pinker and other experts say the reality is not painted in bloody anecdotes, but demonstrated in the black and white of spreadsheets and historical documents. They tell a story of a world moving away from violence.

In his new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined," Pinker makes the case that a smarter, more educated world is becoming more peaceful in several statistically significant ways. His findings are based on peer-reviewed studies published by other academics using examinations of graveyards, surveys and historical records:

? The number of people killed in battle ? calculated per 100,000 population ? has dropped by 1,000-fold over the centuries as civilizations evolved. Before there were organized countries, battles killed on average more than 500 out of every 100,000 people. In 19th century France, it was 70. In the 20th century with two world wars and a few genocides, it was 60. Now battlefield deaths are down to three-tenths of a person per 100,000.

? The rate of genocide deaths per world population was 1,400 times higher in 1942 than in 2008.

? There were fewer than 20 democracies in 1946. Now there are close to 100. Meanwhile, the number of authoritarian countries has dropped from a high of almost 90 in 1976 to about 25 now.

Pinker says one of the main reasons for the drop in violence is that we are smarter. IQ tests show that the average teenager is smarter with each generation. The tests are constantly adjusted to keep average at 100, and a teenager who now would score a 100 would have scored a 118 in 1950 and a 130 in 1910. So this year's average kid would have been a near-genius a century ago. And that increase in intelligence translates into a kinder, gentler world, Pinker says.

"As we get smarter, we try to think up better ways of getting everyone to turn their swords into plowshares at the same time," Pinker said in an interview. "Human life has become more precious than it used to be."

Pinker argued his case in a commentary this past week in the scientific journal Nature. He has plenty of charts and graphs to back up his claims, including evidence beyond wartime deaths ? evidence that our everyday lives are also less violent:

? Murder in European countries has steadily fallen from near 100 per 100,000 people in the 14th and 15th centuries to about 1 per 100,000 people now.

? Murder within families. The U.S. rate of husbands being killed by their wives has dropped from 1.2 per 100,000 in 1976 to just 0.2. For wives killed by their husbands, the rate has slipped from 1.4 to 0.8 over the same time period.

? Rape in the United States is down 80 percent since 1973. Lynchings, which used to occur at a rate of 150 a year, have disappeared.

? Discrimination against blacks and gays is down, as is capital punishment, the spanking of children, and child abuse.

But if numbers are too inaccessible, Pinker is more than happy to provide the gory stories illustrating our past violence. "It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence," Pinker writes in his book.

He examines body counts, rapes, sacrifice and slavery in the Bible, using an estimate of 1.2 million deaths detailed in the Old Testament. He describes forms of torture used in the Middle Ages and even notes the nastiness behind early day fairy tales, such as the evil queen's four gruesome methods for killing Snow White along with a desire to eat her lungs and liver.

Even when you add in terrorism, the world is still far less violent, Pinker says.

"Terrorism doesn't account for many deaths. Sept. 11 was just off the scale. There was never a terrorist attack before or after that had as many deaths. What it does is generate fear," he said.

It's hard for many people to buy the decline in violence. Even those who deal in peace for a living at first couldn't believe it when the first academics started counting up battle deaths and recognized the trends.

In 1998, Andrew Mack, then head of strategic planning for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, said a look at the statistics showed the world was becoming less violent. The reaction from his professional peacekeeping colleagues?

"Pffft, it's not true," they told Mack, arguing that the 1990s had to be the worst decade in U.N. history. It wasn't even close.

Joshua Goldstein, a professor of international relations at American University and author of "Winning the War on War," has also been telling the same story as Pinker, but from a foreign policy point of view. At each speech he gives, people bring up America's lengthy wars in the Middle East. "It's been a hard message to get through," he acknowledged.

"We see the atrocities and they are atrocious," Goldstein said. "The blood is going to be just as red on the television screens."

Mack, who's now with Simon Fraser University in Canada, credits the messy, inefficient and heavily political peacekeeping process at the U.N., the World Bank and thousands of non-governmental organizations for helping curb violence.

The "Human Security Report 2009/2010," a project led by Mack and funded by several governments, is a worldwide examination of war and violence and has been published as a book. It cites jarringly low numbers. While the number of wars has increased by 25 percent, they've been minor ones.

The average annual battle death toll has dropped from nearly 10,000 per conflict in the 1950s to less than 1,000 in the 21st century. And the number of deadliest wars ? those that kill at least 1,000 people a year ? has fallen by 78 percent since 1988.

Mack and Goldstein emphasize how hard society and peacekeepers have worked to reduce wars, focusing on action taken to tamp down violence, while Pinker focuses on cultural and thought changes that make violence less likely. But all three say those elements are interconnected.

Even the academics who disagree with Pinker, Goldstein and Mack, say the declining violence numbers are real.

"The facts are not in dispute here; the question is what is going on," John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and author of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics."

"It's been 21 years since the Cold War ended and the United States has been at war for 14 out of those 21 years," Mearsheimer said. "If war has been burned out of the system, why do we have NATO and why has NATO been pushed eastward...? Why are we spending more money on defense than all other countries in the world put together?"

What's happening is that the U.S. is acting as a "pacifier" keeping the peace all over the world, Mearsheimer said. He said like-minded thinkers, who call themselves "realists" believe "that power matters because the best way to survive is to be really powerful." And he worries that a strengthening China is about to upset the world power picture and may make the planet bloodier again.

And Goldstein points out that even though a nuclear attack hasn't occurred in 66 years ? one nuclear bomb could change this trend in an instant.

Pinker said looking at the statistics and how violent our past was and how it is less so now, "makes me appreciate things like democracy, the United Nations, like literacy."

He and Goldstein believe it's possible that an even greater drop in violence could occur in the future.

Goldstein says there's a turn on a cliche that is apt: "We're actually going from the fire to the frying pan. And that's progress. It's not as bad as the fire."

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Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.

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Online:

Steven Pinker's web site: http://stevenpinker.com/

A lecture by Pinker with his statistics and graphics on a "history of violence:" http://bit.ly/rupVbk

Joshua Goldstein's book website: http://winningthewaronwar.com/

The Human Security Report Project: http://www.hsrgroup.org/

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Turkey: Iran must cooperate over plot allegations (AP)

ANKARA, Turkey ? Turkey's foreign minister on Friday urged Iran to cooperate with the U.S. over an alleged conspiracy to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

Ahmet Davutoglu told the state-run Anatolia news agency hours after a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, that the allegations against Iran are "serious" and that the country should take note of the evidence.

"Our advice to our neighbor Iran is to take notice of the evidence that the United States has and to help the legal process in a totally transparent manner," the agency quoted Davutoglu as saying. "That's the message I gave the Iranian foreign minister."

Two men, including an alleged member of Iran's special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in New York with conspiring to kill the Saudi diplomat.

Last week, U.S. officials traveled to Turkey to brief the country on evidence they have in the alleged plot, according to Turkish media reports.

"Allegations that a country would engage in an assassination attempt in another country against a third country's ambassador are extremely serious and the issue needs to be treated with the necessary care and seriousness," Davutoglu said.

Earlier, Davutoglu held a joint news conference with Salehi, during which he urged both Iran and the U.S. to share what information they have and avoid escalating tensions.

"We do not believe that Iran, with its state traditions, would display such an act," Davutoglu told journalists. "But the United States says it has evidence and Saudi Arabia has also made certain statements."

Salehi, who was in Ankara to discuss cooperation with Turkey in the fight against autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels, rejected the U.S. allegations as "weak, baseless and empty."

"Talking about them is a waste of time," he told reporters.

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Dog bowls led Philadelphia landlord to basement dungeon (Reuters)

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) ? The rescue of four starving, mentally handicapped people held captive in the filthy basement of a Philadelphia building began with a landlord's suspicions about a pair of dog bowls.

Turgut Gozleveli, a retired electrical contractor who cares for the building, told Reuters on Thursday how on a routine inspection a week ago, he noticed missing lightbulbs in the basement and dog bowls under a workbench table.

His discoveries ultimately led to the arrest of four people on kidnapping charges and the rescue of three men and a woman from the cramped basement dungeon in the working class Tacony neighborhood.

Authorities said the captors held the mentally handicapped adults to steal their Social Security checks, and investigators were pursuing the possibility as many as 50 people were victimized in a fraud scheme across several states.

Gozleveli, 71, who speaks with a Turkish accent, said he assumed a tenant had stolen the bulbs but was mystified by the bowls in the no-pets-allowed apartment building.

"I knocked on the doors and said, 'Is anyone feeding a pet?'" he recalled. All of the tenants he spoke to in the seven-unit building, once a small neighborhood movie theater, said no.

On Friday, he looked again and the bowls were still there.

On Saturday, he ventured down a few steps leading to a subbasement housing water heaters and another smaller room holding an out-of-use furnace.

Flashlight in hand, he saw a chain wrapped around the handle of the metal door to the old furnace room. He unwrapped the chain and opened the door to find two small barking dogs and piles of blankets on wooden platforms on the dirt floor.

He pulled back the edge of a dirty quilt to find a man and a woman huddled underneath. There seemed to be little else in the room except a urine-filled bucket that served as a toilet.

"I said, 'Get the hell out of here,'" he said, before calling police. "I thought they were squatters."

Inside the small room, police found two more men -- one in a ragged sleeping bag and one chained to the rusty furnace.

When they emerged into the daylight, "they were kind of beat up, walking like they were drunk, unsteady," the landlord recalled. Police said the victims were mentally challenged with the intellectual capacities of 10-year-olds.

Further search turned up yet another dog, a larger one penned inside a wooden enclosure that Gozleveli knew tenant Jean McIntosh used for storage.

McIntosh, 32, has been charged in the case, as has her mother, Linda Ann Weston, 51, who is suspected of being ringleader of the scheme. Weston has already served prison time for starving a man to death in her North Philadelphia apartment some 30 years ago.

Also under arrest are Gregory Thomas, 47, of North Philadelphia, and Eddie Wright, 50, said to be homeless.

"One of the people said 'Linda brought us here,'" Gozleveli said, an apparent reference to Weston.

Within a short time of his discovery, Gozleveli said the apartment building was swarming with dozens of police officers.

Gozleveli believed he found the victims in the nick of time, and said he was thankful he had not waited another day to start poking around the dark basement.

"They would have been dead," he said.

Once discovered, the victims were taken to area hospitals and placed in custodial care, officials said.

(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Cynthia Johnston)

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