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In a living room littered with stuffed animals, kids? shoes and Blockbuster videos, Mike Newdow sits cross-legged on the floor eating sherbet and listening to tape after tape of his answering machine messages. "You will be punished. You need to fear for your life," says one caller. Newdow nods...
Facing each other, they tap again, each step ever bouncier, and at the Oh-what-a-break break, they do a quick Lindy, their arms airplane wings. Now the band plays games: four times, they blare a five-note sequence and stop; Fred and Ginger fill in each pause with...
Emergence has become a common way of thinking about the world: zillions of little units--in this case neurons--do their own thing but together make up an entity of almost unfathomable complexity. Change the word neurons to "six-legged workers," and you'd have an ant colony. Change "ants...
BOHOL ON THE DOWN LOW Paradise had a problem. We were ready to cast off our travel-stained togs when we realized that our rustic island bungalow already had a resident, who was hairy, eight-legged and about the size of a tennis ball. To our relief our uninvited guest...
Eight Legged Freaks (July 19): In this Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich-produced camp-fest, spiders begin feeding from a toxic waste-infused lake, and as does happen now and then the spiders grow to about six feet in diameter. Ridiculous situations ensue. -CJF