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...criminal-defense team. The Rockingham house was refinanced during the first trial, with a bank providing a $3 million line of credit. Meanwhile, the IRS, which says Simpson owes back taxes, has a lien on the house for $685,248. At the time of the murders, Simpson had liquid assets amounting to about half a million dollars, but they were immediately used to pay lawyers. A member of the first defense team says Simpson's financial adviser, Skip Taft, looked at everything Simpson owned but found nothing significant aside from the Rockingham house and a condominium in Manhattan, which Simpson...
...disputes the way in which David Wayne Dunford died. Shortly after cells in the C1 block of Virginia's Powhatan Correctional Center clanged open for Sunday breakfast on March 3, 1985, someone padlocked Dunford's cell, splashed flammable liquid through the bars and tossed in a lighted match. Dunford, a burglar, died in agony nine days later without naming his murderer...
Cornell University researchers David Lee, Robert Richardson and Douglas Osheroff made their Nobel-winning discovery in 1972. They were working with helium-3, a rare isotope of the common gas, looking for a "phase transition," analogous to the changes in water when it turns from vapor to liquid and from liquid to ice. They had cooled a sample to within two one-thousandths of a degree of absolute zero (-459.67[degrees] F), the temperature at which atomic motion ceases...
...they were charting the changing pressures, the Nobel citation states, "it was Osheroff's vigilant eye that noticed small extra jumps in the curve." Those jumps, it turned out, represented the change of helium-3 into a superfluid, a liquid with no viscosity that can climb up and over the walls of its container and exhibits other bizarre quantum behavior ordinarily observed only in subatomic particles...
...year, says gamemakers and MUD designers are trying to do two very different things: "The game designers come in and say, 'I want to make a game.' The mud designers say, 'I want to manage the ecology of an environment.'" Designers John Sanborn and Michael Kaplan call this technique liquid narrative. "The Web is about chaos," says Sanborn. "We create a world, populate it with unpredictable characters and then just let it expand...