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...cat in a box, he proposed, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption involving a hammer, a vial of poison and a quantum triggering device. If an electron is in one position, the hammer will remain safely cocked. But if the electron moves into the opposite location, the hammer will drop, smashing the vial and killing the cat...
...laws of quantum mechanics hold that as long as the electron remains undisturbed, it hangs in limbo, occupying both its possible states. The cat, by extension, is both dead and alive...
Scientists at Texas A&M University clone a house cat, which they name...
...choir received several standing ovations—and more than a few cat-calls—from the packed Sanders crowd for their Friday “musical celebration...
...Capital Club boasts Zhongnanhai cuisine?the preferred dishes of the Party ?lite who lived in Beijing's government enclave. Mao's favorite meal, red roast pork with bitter melon, is on the menu, as is Deng's family recipe for chicken. (That dish comes garnished with black- and white-cat sculptures?carved out of beets and turnips?in honor of Deng's famous economic axiom: It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.) The culinary allusions continue with the dessert offerings: yuan xiao, rice-paste dumplings stuffed with peanuts and black...