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BOEING Lands a big deal. Air Force picks firm to build new $1.1 billion laser-attack warplanes...
They made their serendipitous discovery by zapping graphite with a laser beam and mixing the resulting carbon vapor with a stream of helium. When they examined the crystallized residue, they found molecules made of 60 carbon atoms. Guessing (correctly) that these structures resembled Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, they named them "buckminsterfullerenes"--"buckyballs" for short...
...Eyez on Me, was filled with the label's typical violent posturing. But Kidada Jones, Shakur's fiance (and daughter of show-biz mogul Quincy Jones), says that before his death Shakur was changing his ways--going out less, staying in more, watching movies like Les Miserables on laser disc. "Instead of going to strip clubs, he'd be cooking," says Jones. Shakur planned to move away from music and into acting, Jones adds. She says his last recording, Makiaveli, completed before his death, is "a really deep album...he wasn't talking about money...
Museums: Name your favorite subject and the city's got a top-notch museum about it. The Boston Museum of Science has hands-on exhibits, a planetarium with laser light shows and an Imax theater. The Computer Museum showcases the latest in technology, also mostly hands-on. And for the kid in you, check out the Children's Museum, site of some amusing house formal dances...
...engaged in the fight against bigotry cannot believe their good fortune in finding someone who can shed some light on the shadowy world of neo-Nazis. Wiesenthal staff members, who have held several long debriefing sessions with Leyden, have big plans for him: they have made arrangements for a laser surgeon to remove his tattoos, and this fall they hope to take him on a lecture tour at U.S. military bases, where Defense Department rules permit local commanders to decide whether to tolerate "passive" extremists in uniform. He has also offered to counsel troubled teenagers. "No one like this...