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Readers of the current Scientific American are informed of several shattering discoveries. Among them: a fatal flaw in Einstein's special theory of relativity, a motor that runs on psychic energy, and a page from Leonardo Da Vinci's newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools...
...into a Viet Cong blockade that stopped its advance. Perhaps as many as 50,000 people and 500 trucks found themselves jammed between the river and the Communists. On the other side of the Song Ba, meanwhile, the caravan began to pile up on itself. A jumble of people, motor scooters, trucks, buses and cars congealed until 5,000 vehicles turned the riverbank into a gigantic parking lot. Then Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the riverside, setting vehicles alight in a fire that 24 hours later was still raging. In the end, the 50,000 who had crossed...
...that can compete more effectively on price and gas mileage. Meanwhile, some foreign-car sellers are beginning to wonder whether their share of U.S. sales may be increasing a bit too fast for their own good. Though Detroit has not asked for tariff protection, a recent statement by the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association said: "In America, which is in a truly deep recession, one question is how will we be able to continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, is trying to document a suspicion that the Rabbit...
...Nidri, the villagers waited in a light rain. Soon the mourners would arrive to ferry across to Aristotle Onassis' private Ionian island of Skorpids and witness the simple rites he had requested and bury him under a cypress tree near his only son Alexander. At last the motor cortege pulled up, and when the American woman in a black leather coat appeared, a murmur ran through the watchers. "A widow for the second time," whispered one old woman in a black shawl. A Mona Lisa smile crept briefly across Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' face, or perhaps it was simply...
...ller's inflatable house is indeed unique; it has 210 square meters of floor space, the ceiling rises nearly 16 ft. at its apex, and the entire structure is held up by a constant flow of air pumped through a plastic umbilical cord by a small electric motor outside. Shadows from trees and clouds dance across the walls and roof, changing shape as the afternoon sun dips toward the horizon. When Müller tires of the shifting shadows, he projects pictures of mountains, oceans and forests on the walls. In warm weather he pipes water to the roof...