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...million is quite a bit of money. When the Charlotte Hornets recently announced that it was willing to stake this not insubstantial chunk of change on one Larry Johnson's ability to put an orange orb through a hoop, I, like many others, shook my head in dismay. After all, I've seen dogs who have been trained to do the same trick with their snouts, and their contracts only call for the occasional extra can of Alpo. And this Larry Johnson fellow, isn't he best known for dressing up as his own grandmother to somehow prove the superiority...
...Bucks County. After his arrest (and before fleeing), Wills told the FBI that he learned much of the craft as a teenager from John Palamarchuk, a 68-year-old former body-shop owner known to law enforcement as "One-Eyed." (His right eye socket, filled with a plastic orb, is barely open.) Wills, who did not own a driver's license, sometimes enlisted his mentor to rent the trucks that hauled his booty. Palamarchuk, who has never served time despite nine arrests, was happy to oblige. Even today, after his star student's fall, Palamarchuk makes no excuses about...
...made analogues of spider silk will be put to an astonishing variety of heavy-duty uses, from reinforcing fibers in aircraft doors to body-hugging suits for downhill skiers. Over the past four years, Lewis has played the attentive host to dozens of fist-size spiders called golden orb weavers, housing them in Plexiglas condominiums, feeding them a daily diet of flies and, every now and then, flipping them on their backs to unravel yards of gossamer thread. The ambitious goal of all this effort: to unravel the secrets of spider silk, a family of materials stronger than steel, stretchier...
...Another trick: strapping a mitt on each hand to grab two balls at once. In short, the new adhesive playthings do what the Frisbee used to do, with less effort. Dropping the Velcro ball is also a lot harder: if it strikes any part of the sticky mitt, the orb stays...
Left in the sun's place was a black orb surrounded by a wide, shimmering halo -- the solar corona, visible only during an eclipse, when it is not obscured by the sun's bright glare. From the 12 o'clock position, an enormous red-orange flame flared beyond the halo; smaller "prominences" appeared at the 3 and 6 o'clock positions. Murmurs of wonder rose from the shivering crowd draped in the steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through...