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Homesickness, the cold, and sugar cravings may be a deadly combination, but there’s a solution. Hit up the nearby homes of these profs and play the child again—and don’t forget the plastic Jack-O-Lanterns. Professor Markus M. Mobius, 56 Kirkland St. Not only does Mobius have his own facebook.com profile, but his favorite movie is Terminator 2. Just imagine the kind of candy he gives out. Professor Reverend Peter J. Gomes, 21 Kirkland St. Despite living practically next door to Memorial Hall, Gomes reports through his secretary that...
...08’s eager mom, this first floor suite has become a refuge of Halloween spirit. A “Danger: Haunted House” sign beckons one inside, where hair-raising black crows haunt the ceilings and the coffee table has been taken over by candy-filled plastic pumpkins. And then, of course, there’s the embalmed body in the corner. Wolfson’s mum, a lover of all things festive, sent the mummy a few weeks ago—to the surprise of her daughter. “We thought we were getting Halloween...
...together,” Matsui says of the pictures of the two, partially nude, on a beach in Hawaii. On the oppposing wall hang blown-up “drunken” snapshots, lit by the dim glow of a red fabric chandelier. A cluster of dangling plastic circles and thin red fabric adorn the ceiling, a red shag rug the floor, and a full-length mirror the far wall. “We like to strut before we go out,” Matsui says. The pair found an eccentric fix for their bare bathroom walls: Japanese porn. Dozens...
...friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company?called, natch, Remarkable?has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases and mousepads, and printers into pens, creating bright new products emblazoned with declarations such...
...world energy crunch. But Michael Flickinger, 54, founding director of the University of Minnesota's Biotechnology Institute, has found a way to make hydrogen--and then electricity--from genetically engineered bacteria embedded in the adhesive latex polymer particles that form the basis of most paints. Thinly coated onto plastic or metals, the polymers, which are infused with bacteria, are permeable to gases and nutrients. The coatings--about two-thirds the thickness of a sheet of paper--jump to life when exposed to light and begin making hydrogen gas, which can be captured in fuel cells and converted into electricity. Sounds...