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...photons, or particles of light-in one shaft of laser light and instantaneously rebuild a replica of it in a second laser beam. Star Trek-style transporters that could move objects through space are still remote, however. "Teleporting of that kind is very far away," says Dr. Ping Koy Lam, since scientists still can't teleport atoms. The U.S. Sue You in Court Lawyers have .led a suit in New York on behalf of four South Africans seeking $50 billion from U.S. and Swiss corporations for the "blood and misery" the companies allegedly caused by doing business with South Africa...
...seven years in the 1990s, she doubled as chief spokeswoman for the Minneapolis office, fending off the media hordes during big cases like the 1999 arrest of St. Paul housewife Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who had been on the lam for two decades. Despite the stress and the risks, Rowley, a suburban mother of four, has never worked anywhere else. She is the family breadwinner, a competitive long-distance runner, a person, by all accounts, of substance...
Other award recipients include Alvaro M. Bedoya ’03, the Harvard-Rwanda Project, Nadia S. Johnson ’03, Kent K. Lam ’03, Scott S. Lee ’03, Alexander B. Patterson ’04 and Courtney A. Roberts...
There are risks, of course, to home sharing. Kristen Lam, 29, says she and her son, 5, spent almost a year sharing a home with an acquaintance "who pawned her child off on me. She'd sneak out in the middle of the night." Still Lam remained committed to the housemate concept because it made sense financially and she felt her son needed a playmate. She interviewed 10 prospects, but no one seemed right. Then Lam met Laura Fettig, 32, and her daughter Erika, 5, at a McDonald's last summer. Fettig, too, had been considering going online to look...
...argument for doing away with damnation was a good one. However, with a number of pedophile/pederast priests on lam or beyond the reach of the criminal courts (and human punishment) because of the statute of limitations, no doubt many Catholics who might not have believed in hell before, might be hoping that one exists...