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...Ostensible professor clearly an escaping criminal who beat up real professor; buff, bearded, heavily-tattooed “Helen Vendler” threatens students in front row with shiv-like sharpened coursepack when they refuse to hand over “smokes?...
...Helen H. Vendler, Porter university professor Whatever any one of us knows is so small in view of everything that is to be known in the cosmos. What you do know is a tiny drop of knowledge. One is always confronted by the ocean of things you don’t know vis à vis the things you do know
Roomba had three parents: Rodney Brooks, director of M.I.T.'s AI Lab, and two of his former graduate students, Colin Angle and Helen Greiner. Brooks, who was featured in the 1997 documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, is arguably the world's greatest living roboticist. A voluble Australian, he's famous for finding radical, counterintuitive approaches to intractable problems; the NASA rover that went to Mars aboard Pathfinder was designed using techniques he pioneered...
...infant death syndrome. Along the way he discovers a children's book containing a rhyme that can kill when the possessor reads it to anyone or even thinks it in his or her direction. Having memorized the fatal lines, Carl now holds that power. So, it turns out, does Helen Hoover Boyle, a brassy Realtor whose specialty is selling haunted houses to unsuspecting buyers--there's good money in the high turnover--and who long ago began putting the lethal verse to her own uses...
...cross-country to destroy every copy of the poem, bringing in tow Helen's assistant Mona, a hippie-ish "witch," and Mona's eco-ranting boyfriend Oyster, the most comically egregious tagalong since that sourpuss hitchhiker picked up by Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. (Oyster describes Johnny Appleseed, who spread non-native plant life, as "a f______ biological terrorist.") All the while Carl struggles with his impulse to wipe out everybody in his path who annoys him. Because his path runs through barroom blowhards and rude librarians, to say nothing of Oyster, that's a lot of folks...