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...highest in any tissue-donation study. "I didn't really know what it was going to be about," says Sister Nicolette, an engaging 93-year-old who is the only one of the 16 girls who took their vows in 1925 to both survive and remain mentally intact. "But I thought if science could learn something from this program, then I was glad to be a part of it." In 1991, the first participant, a resident of Good Counsel Hill convent, died, and the Nun Study received its first brain...
...carrying a load of priceless jewels must escape some thieves with a fast car and heavy artillery. The next little Buddha must reach his lamasery with his aura intact. A film actor on location needs to know if his woman is cheating on him. An incriminating photo has to be smuggled out of a nation in civil war. The planet's bitchiest rock star--yes, Madonna!--needs a speedy comeuppance. Five tough assignments; zero sweat. Because the man at the wheel of each endangered vehicle is a chauffeur for all reasons...the Hire...
...Nakamura owns more than 100 of the robots, which he carefully displays in a glass case at his parents' Los Angeles home. When Internet auction fever hit last year, the prices of the rarest robots - the $500-range machines intact in original box and Styrofoam - quadrupled, so Nakamura took a deep breath and hopped on a plane to Japan to hunt out the best deals. "It was the first time I'd traveled somewhere just to fulfill my toy fetish," he says of his trips down narrow Tokyo alleyways to check out tiny toy-shops. "But Japan is a mecca...
...those poor lobsters that Harvard murders by the thousand for the Clambake every year. So once the sit-in is over, we’ll change the “L” in PSLM to “Lobster” and my job as publicist will remain intact. Only this time, instead of tents and sit-ins, we’ll just let 6,000 lobsters free in Harvard Yard. Of course, since lobsters can’t survive without water, we can either flood the Yard or use crabs instead...
With the Harvard Bubble once again intact, my roommates and I returned to our respective rooms and problem sets...