Trapped Australian miners get iPods

Two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage more than a half mile underground were today given iPods to help them while away the hours as rescuers prepared to start drilling them an escape tunnel.

Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, were trapped on April 25 in a Tasmania gold mine by a cave-in that killed another miner following a small earthquake. The two miners apparently were saved by a slab of rock that fell onto the cage of the cherry-picker they were working in.