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...hypocritical we are! We have long snickered at some neighboring countries in South America as banana republics. But now, between PAC money for Congress and solicited campaign gifts virtually being left on the nightstand in the Lincoln Bedroom by Clinton's "friends," we can truly say favors and legislation are for sale in the U.S. MARTIN JANSEN Agoura Hills, California...
This summer, as the stack on my nightstand will attest, I've been flitting from one book to another, from non-fiction to fiction, from light to heavy, from practical to fantastical, all depending on mood...
...last book on my nightstand, and the one furthest out of my normal range, is called Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstader. It won the Pulitzer Prize in the early 1980s and ties together math, art and music through images of endlessly looping equations, drawings and musical canons. I've slugged through about 200 pages of it. Although it's starting to get into deep computer theory, which is difficult to read, it's still interesting...
...made up of people like Lewis Newby, a former Navy pilot who heads a team of NEST scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Newby travels everywhere with a cellular phone and call-out roster for other team members; at home, a special beeper sits on his nightstand. When a nuclear threat is received, Newby and his colleagues must assess it. At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, nest has a computer filled with thousands of pages of everything publicly written about making a nuclear weapon: newspaper clips, magazine articles, reports in scientific journals, even passages from...
...Chevy Cavalier. The cops asked him some questions. His answers led them to a mobile home where Meadows' friend James Norman Burmeister was renting a room. There they found a Nazi flag, bombmaking books and white-supremacist literature, including a thick volume on the Third Reich on Burmeister's nightstand. They also found something else: a 9-mm pistol that they believed was used to kill Jackie Burden, 27, and her friend Michael James...