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Speculation abounded about just what the magic spice was. Some diners, after sampling both the marinated chicken and macaroni and cheese, made educated guesses, but no one could pin down the secret...
...obsessions, from ARTIFICIAL LIFE to VIRTUAL SEX. But some of the best entries are those that report on the activities of real people trying to live the cyberpunk life. For example, Mark Pauline, a San Francisco performance artist, specializes in giant machines and vast public spectacles: sonic booms that pin audiences to their chairs or the huge, stinking vat of rotting cheese with which he perfumed the air of Denmark to remind the citizenry of its Viking roots. When an explosion blew the thumb and three fingers off his right hand, Pauline simply had his big toe grafted where...
Many Angelenos now pin their hopes for improved community and race relations on police chief Williams, a hulking six-footer who is the first black to lead the L.A. force. Williams speaks softly, venturing into black, Hispanic and Korean-American neighborhoods with words of conciliation in an effort to dispel the notion that his 7,600-member department is an army of occupation. And he carries a big stick. Even though the city is strapped for cash, Williams recently got about $1 million for new riot gear that includes rubber bullets, tear-gas bombs, face shields and 10 crisis vans...
...seems that Radcliffe is the onedoing most of the accommodating. The college'sofficials are notoriously hard to pin down oncontroversial campus issues, a fact that has leftmany a female student activist dissatisfied...
...physics would allow. They should by rights have been flung out into deep space, unless, as Zwicky contended, the gravity from some massive, invisible substance was holding them in. For decades the idea was rejected as too bizarre. "It smacked of angels dancing on the head of a pin," recalls theoretical physcist Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz...