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...sort of place where you expect great machines to be built--a cramped, windowless room where keyboard wires and screen cables coil round cups of stale coffee. A handful of X-shaped boxes in brushed metal, each polished to perfection for a punishing 15 hours, lie on workbenches in varying states of completion. The team of six engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help...
...that discourage Benveniste? Apparently not. His latest theory, and the cause of the current flap, is that the "memory" of water in a homeopathic solution has an electromagnetic "signature." This signature, he says, can be captured by a copper coil, digitized and transmitted by wire--or, for extra flourish, over the Internet--to a container of ordinary water, converting it to a homeopathic solution...
...most famous and important works, Canyon, below left, a collage that features a stuffed bald eagle with a box in its talons, may not make it. Under the U.S. Eagle Protection Act, regulation No. 50CFR22.2, no bald eagle, no matter how long dead (this one flapped off its mortal coil more than 40 years ago), may leave the U.S. at any time. "It would be really bad for us if we had to make do without the picture," says Evelin Weiss, the Ludwig's vice director. "The whole hullabaloo is totally ridiculous." The eagle would probably agree...
...Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool, commences his slapstick when William Henry Devereaux Jr., creative-writing teacher and chairman of the English department at an obscure Pennsylvania college, makes a slighting remark about a colleague's poetry. She whacks him across the face with a notebook, and the metal coil hooks his nose...
...nine seemed determined, if only symbolically, to take it with them. Each, according to police, carried identification, along with some money, in the front pockets of their nearly identical shirts. Suitcases were packed. The house was immaculate. They were ready to go. But on the sloughing off that mortal coil, the "Heaven's Gate" is decidedly cryptic. "The true meaning of "suicide" is to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered," it reads. It was an offer they could not refuse...