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...suck down a case of liquid paper, son. We don't want your kind here...
...Praveen Chaudhari: "All the mental barriers are gone. No one is asking how high it will go anymore." If room-temperature superconductivity is achieved, whether in a year or in a score of years, its impact will be incalculable. The need for refrigerators and insulation, even for liquid / nitrogen, will be gone. And the costs of this still futuristic technology could drop more dramatically than anyone expects. Says IBM's Paul Grant: "We're looking. Everyone is." Adds IBM's William Gallagher: "We shouldn't let our imaginations be constrained by things we now know about. We're just...
...popular press as well as in professional journals -- of new superconducting materials and ever higher temperature ranges. An effect that once could be detected only with sophisticated equipment has become a common sideshow at conferences: a sample of one of the new materials is placed in a dish of liquid nitrogen, and a magnet placed above it. Since superconductors repel magnetic fields, a phenomenon called the Meissner effect, the magnet remains suspended in midair...
...emphasizes the drab and the obvious. Frears cannot match the script's sleek malice, so he gets his laughs with eccentric casting; most of the actors have faces that are their own caricatures, particularly Alfred Molina as Ken. Molina commands the screen with the round face, hulking frame and liquid loser's eyes of the young Peter Lorre. But as photos prove, Ken was physically attractive; it was his manner that repelled people. And now he is memorialized as the haunted child molester from M. Joe would have appreciated the joke anyway...
Meanwhile, French authorities announced the arrests in Paris of eight suspected terrorists, at least some of them with close ties to pro-Iranian extremist groups in Lebanon, on weapons and conspiracy charges. Besides guns and ammunition, twelve quarts of the liquid explosive methyl nitrate were found, leading officials to believe the suspected terrorists were planning a bombing campaign similar to the one that rocked Paris last fall. Police described all of the suspects as devout Shi'ite Muslims, and six of them carried expired Tunisian passports...