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...nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from smoke detectors, thorium from Coleman lanterns, deadly radium from the glow-in-the-dark paint used on the hands of vintage clocks. For sheer improvisational ingenuity, Hahn makes MacGyver look like Jessica Simpson. When public-health officials finally caught on to what Hahn was up to, the potting shed was so hot it had to be classified as a Superfund site...
...florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...
...police are beginning to catch up. Dhahir proudly shows off his new $500 Austrian-made Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...
Normally the counselors would be doing any number of things from homework to movies to board games to Instant Messenger. Sometimes, they sit and watch the sky late at night. “We have these little glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling,” jokes Fletcher. “We turn out the lights and stare at the stars. It’s pretty romantic.” Part of the night usually involves sleeping, which can be interrupted at any moment. “I have a lot of weird dreams when I sleep here...
...Bathed in a stormy light that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, the city with its castles, mighty walls and Gothic church spire looms above a lurid green landscape and a dark, rushing river. The silvery buildings are emphasized by dark halos; an unseen sun makes the clouds glow. No religious drama is going on anywhere: the only figures are manikins fishing, swimming, washing clothes. Yet this may be the most spiritual work he ever produced - a fitting symbol for a painter devoted to illuminating life's ethereal side...