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...Penn State Gas Dynamics Lab, has an invention for you. According to Settles, the human body produces a column of warm air that rises from the feet to the top of one's head, catching constantly shedding skin cells. Settles even has a catchy name for this phenomenon: the human thermal plume. He has created a portal, similar to a walk-through metal detector, that can detect the presence of microscopic amounts of explosive material in the plume...
...money 21. Wife, in Latin and legalese 22. Who gets to call it home was at the heart of last week's Washington summit 25. On the __ (hot-footin' it outta town) 26. D.D.E.'s WW II oversight 27. Tie breakers in some sports, briefly 29. Bay of Fundy phenomenon 30. At some point, a lawyer gives it a rest 32. WW II enlistee 36. They've got a new logo and a new commitment to rider satisfaction 38. Seth begat him 39. Id, it's not 40. Thompson, who's eyeing the Veep spot 41. Cranks up 42. Robert...
...lauded stint at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, an impressive display of poise in the cesspool of Washington, D.C., and a calculated career change to the gubernatorial duties of his home state. For the militantly Democratic citizens of Massachusetts, electing blue-blooded, uberWASP Weld, was an absolute phenomenon...
Similarly, we saw a related phenomenon that could be called the Williamsburging of America. As Nancy Gibbs writes, small towns are rummaging back into their history to reassert their unique identity and attract tourists. Hannibal, Mo., has become a re-created Mark Twain birthplace. In Nauvoo, Ill., Mormons whose families lived there more than a century ago are returning to reconstruct their old temple. And the hotel owner in Kimmswick told us of the town's plan to re-enact the Civil War battle even though, he conceded, it was "just a skirmish...
...government, which saw it as a political attack and reportedly put pressure on South African participants to cancel a press conference scheduled for Monday to discuss its contents. And in Sunday's speech, Mbeki dashed expectations that he'd back away from his earlier pronouncements. Referring to the AIDS phenomenon, Mbeki said "it seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus." That left conference-goers disappointed and alarmed, as it was left to maverick populist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to speak the simple truths about South Africa's AIDS crisis during a rally outside the conference...