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...Steven Lipscomb, creator of the World Poker Tour, changed all that by embedding a lipstick camera in each player's table position. Suddenly, when the players tilted their cards up for a surreptitious glance, they also flashed the TV audience, who then got to watch them lie to the other stone-faced liars at the table. "We made this into a spectator sport," says Lipscomb. "Now when you watch a World Poker Tour show, you feel like you're in the seat making a million-dollar decision on every hand...
Nobel laureates Richard J. Roberts, William N. Lipscomb, who is Lawrence professor of chemistry, emeritus, and Dudley R. Herschbach, who is Baird professor science, presided over the ceremony...
...many of the ideas and discoveries of the recipients are fairly useless, that’s just the way these mad scientists like it. The awards are presented to the year’s winners by somewhat bemused Nobel laureates. Presenters this year include Sheldon Glashow, Dudley Herschbach, William Lipscomb, Richard Roberts, Robert Wilson, and many others...
...your story on Zachary/Aurora Lipscomb, the boy who is being raised as a girl [BEHAVIOR, Sept. 25]: the diagnosis of "gender-identity disorder" seems to have been based mostly on his fashion preferences. Why not a more detailed report on this subject? You could put together a wonderful article showing the jeweled and embroidered robes, the wigs, the earrings and necklaces that virile men of other times and cultures have delighted in. Maybe you could even find someone to explain why it should be a sign of psychiatric illness for a 21st century boy to like them. PATRICIA S. BOWNE...
Amid all the problems, the Lipscomb child apparently has loving parents. But whether Aurora remains Aurora, or returns to Zachary--or decides on another identity--the kid is destined to conduct this search with armies of lawyers battling nearby...