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Imagine a creature with eyes everywhere--on the top of its head, on its chest, on its knees. Surely it must have leaped out of a monster movie, you say, or the caverns of ancient myth. But, no, this strange beast crawled--actually it flew--out of the pages of the august journal Science last week. In a new study, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland described how they genetically engineered swarms of bizarre fruit flies-not as an attention-grabbing stunt but as part of a serious effort to understand how nature fashions something as magnificent...
...until Thomson and his colleagues hopped aboard a plane this month for a closer view of the monster that they were truly shocked. The appearance of the iceberg was just one of several dramatic changes they could see along the Antarctic Peninsula. A part of the Larsen Ice Shelf--to which the iceberg had been attached--was broken up into rubble. And a huge tongue of ice that had connected the mainland with James Ross Island, just offshore, was gone. "For the first time in recorded history," says Thomson, "you could circumnavigate Ross Island. I was absolutely staggered by what...
...knows but isn't telling, the doctor who brought Hatch back to life, is the very same doctor who brought the killer back to life. Then the neatness becomes oh-so-strangling when we realize that the doctor is the killer's father, who knows he's created a monster but can't bring himself to put an end to his own flesh and blood...
...extraordinary new study, Mozart: A Life (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), has gone much further than any of his predecessors in humanizing his subject. Above all, he limns the complex relationship between Mozart and the person who was the center and the terror of his life: his father, the fabulous monster Leopold...
...Green scored twice to make it 14-11, but Buletza smashed one home to give Harvard the side out, and then, like Karch Kiraly to Steve Timmons in the 1988 Olympic gold medal game against the Russians, he set up Taxy perfectly for the monster kill...