Word: grails
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...Thus began one of my most satisfying obsessions - a 20-year search of any vinyl archive I could uncover. In collectors' shops, record fairs, flea markets, and Pennysavers, I sought my self-appointed Holy Grail. But more on that in a minute...
...haven't been this excited since...well, ever. For the past half an hour I have been reading a review copy of the Holy Grail of books: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I can't believe I've gotten my hands on this thing. The book actually belongs to TIME magazine's Paul Gray, who has the enviable job of reviewing it for the upcoming issue, and until he abruptly yanked it from my trembling fingers, it was my moment in the sun. Then it was gone, and now I'm faced with the thought of joining...
Despite some accounts likening his accomplishment to finding biology's Holy Grail, Venter points out that identifying the order of the letters in our genetic alphabet is just a first step. Still ahead for Celera as well as its competitors: the much more complicated task of telling what those letters mean, what they do and what can be done if the messages they spell out are in error--a prime cause of human disease and suffering (see following story...
...holy grail of pornography, though, has always been a machine that delivers a virtual experience so real that it is indistinguishable from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit...
...word is known. The search for a successor to silicon has become a kind of crusade; it is the Holy Grail of computation. Among physicists, the race to create the Silicon Valley for the next century has already begun. Some of the theoretical options being explored...