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...boost his story's drama, and his street cred? (Have we learned nothing, nothing, from the downfall of Vanilla Ice?) Frey isn't giving an inch-or he gives an inch, but that's all. He wrote on his website: "Let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this bulls___ with any sort of further response." On Wednesday (having apparently reconsidered that last bit somewhat) he appeared on Larry King with a more nuanced position: "A memoir is a subjective retelling of events," he said...
...think back to that fiendishly complicated puzzle of stars and planets and whirling gas clouds whenever I think about the promise of human-intelligence enhancement. How much quicker and more acute do people really want to be? How many more bits per cubic inch of gray matter do people wish they could store? People whose minds are generally healthy, that is. People who, for their age and condition, are already smart enough...
...think we were very competitive.” Standouts for the women included freshman Becky Christensen, who set a personal best in the high jump, winning the event at a height of 1.76 meters. “I improved over my best by about a quarter of an inch, which is good,” Christensen said. “I haven’t jumped any higher than that, ever.” Christensen’s height, in fact, exceeds that of the winning long jump at last year’s Heptagonal Championships, the February precursor...
...numbers on the motel doors 70 yards distant, and the same strength on his Redfield scope would make human figures seem only 30 ft. away. The scope was mounted on a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster, which was engineered so that its 150-grain slug would lose less than .01 inch in altitude and reach the motel balcony with 2,370 pounds of knockdown power--enough to drop a rhinoceros. However, the odd angle of an occluding building next door meant the convict could fire the long rifle only by leaning out his window. To avoid that, he must wait until...
...photo of Cro-Magnons building a hut. Sugimoto is well aware of the irony that he, like the creators of such dioramas, is practicing a vanishing art. It's not simply that digital photography is quickly becoming more popular than traditional film. It's that his tools?an 8 inch by 10 inch box camera, silver-emulsion film, and fiber-based paper?are virtually extinct. "The materials I use are becoming endangered species," he says. "A few months ago, my paper maker went bankrupt. I'm negotiating with the new owner to see if they are going to keep making...