Word: dilithium
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Annan's critics find his outlook naive. His aides even joke about his world view, calling it "Star Trek Planet," after the show on which Russians and Scots worked merrily on dilithium-crystal drives as their ship shot through space at warp speed. That world is as remote as transporter beams. Annan's critics also lash him for his willingness to "do business" with anyone. When he returned from negotiations in Baghdad in 1998 and mildly said he had "a good human rapport" with Saddam Hussein, the White House shrieked. Others said he sounded like Neville Chamberlain praising Hitler. Annan...
...looks like a floating digital brain, and certainly qualifies as an objet d'art. When I wasn't gawking at my test model, I was groping it. I had to pluck the motherboard-and-hard-drive core from its housing just to make sure there weren't any dilithium crystals hidden within (instant disassembly is one of the Cube's neater features...