Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Star Trek "communicators" have always been the model for cell phones, but thick batteries and bulky electronics have made truly slim, light portables a distant dream. No more. Below, two new phones that would please Captain Kirk...
Gustavo De La Riva's lab boasts an imposing assortment of high-tech gear: automated machines for synthesizing DNA, centrifuges for swirling cell cultures, growth chambers for coddling delicate seedlings. There is even a particle gun that genetically transforms sugarcane embryos by peppering them with DNA-coated BBs. But what really impresses foreign visitors is the folding cot that occupies a corner of De la Riva's office. At the Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia (CIGB) in Havana, Cuba, De la Riva explains, researchers strive to stay ahead of the competition by sleeping alongside their experiments...
...particularly proud of this award, given the circumstances under which it was earned. In Jerusalem senior foreign correspondent (and acting bureau chief) Johanna McGeary was visiting with journalist friends at 9 p.m. Israeli time when she heard the news. She raced to the bureau, making calls on her cell phone all the way. By the time she reached the office, she says, "everybody was mobilized...
...pass? In any case, plot turns are one thing, chemistry another. Seasoned superstars--including Al Pacino and Robert Redford--have failed to ignite the screen when paired with the ultracool Pfeiffer. Clooney will at least have this advantage: much of the mating ritual in the movie is conducted via cell phone...
...During the '70s Ken Babbs and I put out a little homegrown periodical called Spit in the Ocean. The idea was to have a different editor for each issue and let them call the deal. Dr. Timothy Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop the loftiest ivory tower. But from behind bars...