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...know an editor at a computer magazine who treats his machine as if it were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological risk...
...dissemination of bomb know-how has become a minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet anarchists who like to shop for such products as laser sights, camouflage, fake badges and fake fbi and atf hats. Some of their most popular offerings are "burn-and-blow'' books that describe in detail how to make landmines, booby traps and bombs. "The information is available on the Internet and everywhere else," says retired atf agent Al Gleason, who spent...
...first entertainment town to discover that, ultimately, nothing is unique--except the producer's claims of uniqueness. Listen to Jeff Kutash describe Splash II, scheduled to open late next month at the Riviera. "This is the first truly interactive show!" he exclaims. "The audience will have a laser battle with the performers. We've waterized the whole theater-turned it into a giant submarine to take the audience on a tour of wonderful places like Atlantis and Shangri-La." You might think it difficult to get a submarine up the Himalayas--but in Vegas, nothing is impossible...
Museum of Science. Science Park, Boston.723-2500. Exhibits include "The Observatory,"featuring infrared and ultrasonic sounds andimages of unseen events; and "The Test tube," anexhibit of some of the museum's work-in-progressfor upcoming exhibits. Laser show "Pink Floyd:Dark Side of the Moon," "The Police,""Lollapalaser," and "Dream On: The Music ofAerosmith." Omni Theater. Planetarium...
...experimental atomic physicist, Prentiss specializes in using laser fields to manipulate atoms, he said...