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...letter movingly depicts the ravages of age: "Everything is such an effort and I have to be helped around still on my two wretched sticks ? I crawl about from one room to another and try not to let me down." His long life's journey is dazzling and his pen nimble. And he is unhesitatingly honest in a treasurable series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great...
...idea that anything bigger than a photon can be teleported is fantasy. "It is beyond any foreseeable technology to teleport a physical object like a pen, much less a person," says Gisin. He doesn't rule out, in the far future, the teleportation of a molecule. In the immediate future, there are other applications: last year, for example, a spin-off company of Gisin's lab called ID Quantique developed a quantum key that allows for communication--say, transactions between banks--that is completely inoculated against code-breaking attacks. Because the information is being transported in an unconventional...
Prisoners are held in individual rooms under the courtyard or in a large holding pen, according to a former detainee who asked not to be named for fear of being rearrested. For nearly a week, he slept on a woven plastic mat in a cell so small he couldn't stretch out. Air entered from a pipe in the ceiling, but there was no light. On his first night, he was pulled out of the cell, blindfolded and led to a room where he was strapped to a column. Two men, he says, beat him with a whip, then smashed...
Though he has received mixed critical reviews, Martin’s novels are widely read—he’s been on the New York Times bestseller list three times. The author readily admits that he is not aiming to pen the next great American novel. “My job is to write books people stay up late reading,” Martin says...
FRANKFURT Located on Goethestrasse, the Montblanc store is in the heart of the shopping district. The Meisterstuck, left, Montblanc's classic pen, continues to be the store's best-selling item