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...Armstrong has hatched "plan after plan to beat this bloke in my head. And every time I've come up with a theory, someone has gone out and done what I imagined?got on him early, or pounded him in the turns or stuck to him like glue to see if he'd crack." Thorpe has had an answer for every challenge...
...took an average of four hours to sculpt Murphy into a Klump--via foam-rubber facial appliances that had to be replaced each day and kept consistent through months of filming--then hours more for the end-of-day Klump-ectomy. "The edges are so thin and the glue is so strong, the pieces get destroyed in the process," says Baker. "So if Eddie worked 50 days as Sherman, you needed 50 different sets of Sherman pieces...
...used to draw the line at books. the more my life became digital and downloadable, dominated by DVDs and MP3s, the more dust that gathered on my analog music tapes and VHS cassettes, the more I resolved never to abandon the trusty old paper- ink-and-glue devices that proliferate on my shelves and pile up on my floor. As a die-hard bibliophile, I'd trot out every argument in the book against e-books: they're too clunky to curl up with; they're too expensive; they can't re-create print- perfect text or the smell...
...weight and color. Now what high-tech bibliophiles need is for SoftBook and Microsoft to get their acts together. Perhaps a few versions down the road, someone will chip in with an olfactory circuit that gives e-books a new-book smell, at which point my old paper-and-glue devices won't stand a chance. Maybe I better clear some space in the garage, next to the cassettes and videotapes...
...direct result of the instructions coded in our DNA, they are far more variegated and complex than DNA. They have to be. Every chemical reaction essential to life depends in one way or another on their services. Proteins are the beams and rafters of the cell and the glue that binds the body together; they're the hormones that course through our veins and the guided missiles that target infections; they're the enzymes that build up and break down our energy reserves and the circuits that power movement and thought...