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Barbour thought otherwise. Every "moment" we experience is real, he says, but these moments exist only for that brief instant, during which time literally stands still. The passage of time is as illusory as the sense of movement created by the succession of still frames in a motion picture...
...Investigators believe more people may receive cross-contaminated mail, and with that in mind have tracked more than 300 of the letters that passed through the Trenton, New Jersey mail processing facility at the same instant as the contaminated letters made their way to Capitol Hill. Authorities in the areas that should have received the letters are on alert for anthrax symptoms, but thus far haven?t seen any new cases. No word yet on whether officials will try to track down the rest of the letters that may have come in contact with the Senators? letters - which could number...
...kids themselves hit the road for reasons ranging from chasing down a beloved pop act to escaping an abusive home. Michiko and Yuko, who are slurping a 1 a.m. dinner of curry-flavored instant noodles on a street corner, are a couple of 17-year-olds who met on a weeklong pursuit of their favorite boy band, Glay clones called Due le Quartz. Parked nearby are their miniature suitcases, one a faux Burberry, the other girlishly pink with a strawberry pattern. Michiko has taken off from her suburban Tokyo home before, but this is a first for Yuko, who rode...
...Hana and Aya, both 15, loiter outside a fast-food joint in Shibuya staring at a sheet of purikura photos, instant snapshots printed on stickers taken in arcade booths. It features the two in various poses with four guys who look to be in their mid-20s. "We can't go home because our parents would smell the drink on us," says Hana, her face clouding. "I hate them. They're so strict." Lately she's run away for longer periods, sometimes sleeping at her friend Aya's house, sometimes partying for days on end. Hana brightens and nudges...
...video store before it closes, chooses movies he's seen before but knows he likes and, in a jump of fifty years, lies on his deathbed in an empty hospital room. Or else, in a series of gags titled Tales of Tomorrow, an overfed man-child makes instant purchases on his view screen and schlurps product through a tube in the wall. A trip to the moon results in his doing more of the same in a different place...