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...superstar price tags are the work of a London furniture company co-owned by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and Designer Robin Cruikshank. "I had the conventional art-school training, but he comes up with some very unusual ideas," says Cruikshank of his partner. Among Starr's contributions: a doughnut-shaped fireplace and a table designed to look like a flower with petal seats that adjust in height. "With three children," says Ringo simply, "you think of these things...
...week's end, however, pie throwers across the country heard some unsettling news. In Minneapolis, Pie Kill Agent Jeffery Carpenter, 19, was arrested and charged with simple assault and breach of the peace for trying to pie a woman in a local doughnut store. Though the assault charge was later dropped, Carpenter was warned that he must stay on his best behavior for a year or face jail and a fine. Or, if justice is to be truly served, he might just be pasted with a lemon meringue...
Inside the Princeton doughnut-shaped Tokamak, deuterium and tritium (both isotopes, or different forms, of hydrogen) will serve as fusion fuel. In the form of a plasma (a high-temperature, ionized gas), the fuel will be suspended within powerful magnetic fields. Thus the gas will be supported by nothing but magnetic force and will be insulated from the steel walls of the reactor. If the plasma touched the wall, the wall would be heated, the plasma would be contaminated and its temperature lowered. The powerful magnetic fields will be manipulated to squeeze the plasma, raising its temperature and increasing...
Whatever may have been the distinction's validity in 1954, when police men (Sgt. Pepper?) stood in the school doorways to bar black children, it is almost meaningless today. To the black youth isolated in the center of the doughnut, what difference does it make whether his position results from law or social fact? As Alexander Bickel writes in The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress...
...DETROIT CASE illustrates the meaninglessness of the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation. The city is a doughnut by fact, not by law. But it is the mere fact of its doughnutness that deprives the children of both the inner city and the suburbs of an equal education. The court should declare the de facto situation in Detroit unconstitutional and order a metropolitan solution for it and all urban centers with similar racial patterns. Only such a decision, with effects as far-reaching as Brown's, will ensure that both races become educated in the broadest sense...