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...career was on the ebb. His new appearance won him little sympathy, while the children of the 1980s had mostly grown up and moved on. Jackson was in fact a cliché whose time was coming to an end, aided and abetted by his strange habits—his pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, the private shrine to Elizabeth Taylor reputedly kept in his quarters, and perhaps most importantly of all, his predilection for hanging out exclusively with children...
Take a peek under your desk. See that snarl of cables, leads, paper clips and lost printouts cascading from the butt end of your PC? Well, etch the ugly sight into your memory for nostalgic reference. Computer cables are going the way of eight-tracks, pet rocks and typewriters. A wireless revolution is seeping into our homes, schools, offices and gathering points very quietly, and setting up what appears to be a face-off between two competing technical standards...
...juicy cameos: Schlink, the Jewish U-boat plumber (“Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American man! You are a godless homosexual rapist of your mother’s pet goat”). Some of these seem to go astray: Perry Pincus, seducer of Eng Lit. celebs and “unashamed sexual butterfly” is presumably a (biting) portrayal of an actual acquaintance of Rushdie’s, though for those of us outside the know...
...structure, why galaxies clump together in huge clusters rather than spread uniformly throughout space. He and a colleague suggested that the reason was knots of warped space-time called "topological defects." The idea was brilliant, but observations proved it quite wrong. Many scientists would have fought to save their pet theory. Spergel cheerfully declared it dead and moved...
...could have imagined in the heady late '90s that the Web would become a mausoleum preserving the celebrity afterlife of fallen stars? Back then it seemed the Internet would be the exclusive domain of radical, paradigm-busting new concepts, like ordering pet food in bulk. Now some of the oldest, most forgotten names in Hollywood have found in the Net a follow spot that, in theory, never dims. They've set up websites acclaiming their careers, personal lives and, in truly alarming numbers, shilling products imbued with their glamour. There's no easier way, fans, to purchase a genuine Buddy...