Word: gecko
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...more portable. And wonder can get funding in a hurry when its owner is Paul Allen. His R&D team, part of his Vulcan research group, started project Sybok, named for Spock's half brother. After a series of prototypes--with names like Dolphin, Eagle, Falcon and Gecko--the team members nailed a version in 2004 that met their goal of shrinking a laptop to one-eighth its size. But it was too hot for laps, so it was scrapped. A faster, slicker processor has since cooled things down. Today, however, the heat is external. In the decades since Allen...
...made from rice and is either clear or red, depending on the brew. More exotic, though, are the ones containing some not-so-secret ingredients: whole pickled cobras, monkey parts or any other animal that will fit in a jar. Each variety is said to have specific medicinal powers. Gecko is purported to be a natural antibiotic. Black crow supposedly cures backaches. Aphrodisiac versions come with goat testicles, starfish and sea horse. Then there's the secret herbal recipe with a name that conveys a sense of its rare erotic promise: Nhat Da Ngu Giao, or One Night, Five Times...
...workers to buy your burgers or your shoes when they can get all they want for free. No one who works at ground zero--from cops to construction foremen making $90 an hour overtime--has to pay for anything there. Nonprofits never had much of a presence in Gordon Gecko Land, but with millions pouring in to anyone with "9/11" in his organization's name, they are now the dominant economic force in the Ground Zero District. And even when it comes to charity, the cold rules of New York City bureaucracy and capitalism apply, as the 30-member Gumbo...