Word: cloak
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...want to come out and play. Just when this most technical of sciences starts to become impossibly arcane, it goes goofy on you, as it did last year with the announcement that physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, had developed a tiny working model of an invisibility cloak. This week, the physics magic shop announced yet another wonder: levitation. Really...
...measure, that's important stuff, though as with last year's invisibility cloak, it doesn't portend magical applications in the everyday world - and won't for a long, long time. "If you're looking for a free trip for your body on quantum levitation, you're not going to get it with this," says Parsegian. Even at its most fanciful, physics, it seems, can play around for only so long before it gets back to serious work...
...reach a magic fountain. "Three Brothers" is, of course, a compressed little gem about Rowling's great themes, love and death. (Though there's one thing I don't get about the story: are we supposed to believe that the Youngest Brother spends his whole life wearing the invisibility cloak? You'd think he'd at least wash it once in a while, at which time Death would swoop down and carry...
...seeking reconciliation must be willing to respect the Afghan constitution, the very document that Omar rejects as heresy. "It is ridiculous to think that Mullah Omar would be willing to come to the negotiating table now," scoffs a NATO commander. "This is the man who draped himself in the cloak of the Prophet and declared himself commander of the faithful. He has nothing to gain by negotiating, and we have nothing to gain by offering talks when the Taliban think they are winning...
Frederick moved through the room in a frenzy, his heated lips leaving small patches of spittle on the marble limbs. He found himself in front of a massive statue of Alcibiades, the Athenian hero. Alcibiades’s cloak billowed behind him, framing the proud thrust of his hips and the jaunty angle of his spear. With a whimper of admiration, Frederick sunk to his knees and prepared to offer worship...