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...along with this year’s theme of “Complexity,” the gala ceremony will feature “The Wedding Complex,” a farcical mini-opera about scientists planning a wedding—scientifically, of course—and culminating in a real, 60-second wedding that will join Will Stefanov and Lisa Danielson, two Arizona State University geologists, in holy matrimony. The actual wedding will only complicate the Ig Nobel ceremony, thereby reinforcing the complexity theme...
...after they returned, a preseason hockey game between longtime rivals New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers ended with the players watching President Bush's address to Congress, shaking hands and skating off the ice in midgame. Satirical websites theonion.com and modernhumorist.com interrupted publication. A five-hour Law & Order mini-series on NBC was scuttled because it involved an anthrax-attack plot in New York City. Microsoft indefinitely put off the next version of its popular Flight Simulator because it includes the Twin Towers in its simulacrum of New York City. Terror-themed movies were shelved by studios and pulled from...
...trouble for bottom-watchers is, this all makes a lot of sense. Before the attacks, when a mini-recession seemed imminent, the Dow?s trend line was slowly churning lower, punctuated by the occasional technical bounce, in the 9500-10,500 range. Now it?s doing the same thing, in the 8000-9000 range. Can anyone honestly say that what happened that Tuesday wasn?t worth 1,500 points or so? Until Wall Street can grasp some evidence of a treatment equal to the wound - or a healing period equal to the pain - it?s hardly likely to want...
...Oyola's Brooklyn apartment serves as a mini-command center to coordinate the search. Friends have posted flyers and e-mailed photos, telling everyone to look for a 5-ft. 4-in. woman with brown eyes and long, recently dyed, dark red hair. He can't stop shuffling from hospital to hospital, can't stop staring at the TV screen. "I want to turn it off, but I can't. I'm hoping that I'll see something, that I'll see her." He owes her this, at the very least...
...Asleep Overrated CIVILIAN SPACE FLIGHT Dutch firm MirCorp has signed a deal with Russian spacecraft maker Energiya to build and launch a private space station into orbit in 2004. Called Mini Station 1, the cramped craft is part of a $100 million project to send three touristronauts in orbit for 20 days at a time...