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...Karan sell, but the kind bowling alleys rent out by the hour and lose to petty thieves. The last time rental bowling shoes were hot was in the early '90s, the grunge era and the depths of the downsizing of America's corporations. Now, as the U.S. economy slides, lane operators from Phoenix to Milwaukee have been reporting thefts of up to 20 pairs a month. "You wonder: Where are their morals?" marvels one. They are popular in Japan, too, and we all know how that economy is doing. Fashion has contributed to the trend?Brad Pitt threw a bowling...
...Lane, who was trained as a physicist, says that Summers has a talent for explaining how the complex ideas of science can have real-world benefits. For example, Lane says Summers likes to explain how the idea of the square root of negative one, i--a so-called imaginary number--has had a tremendous effect on technology. i represents a point in the two-dimensional plane, and such two-dimensional numbers are used extensively in engineering and physics. Lane says Summers uses i as an example of how theoretical understanding can lead to practical benefits...
...Without going into the details of writing equations down, people see how mathematics has helped us," Lane says...
...Lane says he thinks Summers has his priorities for science in the right place...
...enough about Larry Summers as an intellectual and public servant," Lane says. "He also knows how important it is to support science in the government and in our universities...