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This morning I decide to try a little experiment: I opened up my iPad, clicked on the little Wired icon and purchased the magazine's latest digital issue. After I agreed to fork over $4, it began downloading. For the next phase of the experiment, I grabbed my car keys, left my apartment and drove about 12 blocks to a local magazine store in Brooklyn, where I also purchased the latest issue of Wired magazine, this time in print. I didn't run any red lights, or speed, or park illegally during my shopping expedition. Yet when I returned home with the glossy paper product in hand, the digital iPad version still hadn't finished downloading to my iPad. Anybody who reads Wired would call this an Epic Fail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A LITTLE more than two months ago, when Robert Clark found many of his possessions pushed out into the cold Brooklyn night along with those of 200 of his neighbors because the building they all lived or worked in was declared a fire hazard as a result of a broken sprinkler system and an ad hoc matzo factory in the basement, they might have assumed the worst was over. Mr. Clark, a photographer for National Geographic, and his wife, Lai Ling Jew, who does public relations for nonprofit groups, only worked in the building, at 475 Kent Avenue in South Williamsburg. So they moved some of their papers, equipment and other possessions into their apartment, which was across the street. They also took in some of their newly homeless neighbors until the situation could be sorted out. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]