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Next month a B-52 will take off from Edwards Air Force Base in southern California carrying a payload that could spell the death of in-flight entertainment and plastic omelettes. Leaving the Mojave Desert, the crew will head for U.S. Navy test waters in the Pacific. On order, they will release a Pegasus missile from under their right wing and send it roaring up into the sky. At 31 km, more than double civil aviation altitude, a black, windowless, pilotless sliver of finned metal shaped like a flattened dart will separate from the Pegasus' nose and scream down into...
Students plagued by late-night hunger can no longer count on the Kozmo.com couriers to be their knights in orange plastic armor...
...thing and when is the thing itself? Most importantly, how many marshmallows can that guy fit into his mouth? These are just some of the probing questions invited by three vibrant mimes with a penchant for banging out “Go Ask Alice” on plastic tubes...
...glorious and perfect nation: England. It is the story of that quest that is the two-hours’ traffic of the Agassiz stage, in this semester’s offering by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players. (The stage, incidentally, being halfway covered and surrounded by blue plastic balls of the type one might find in the ball pit of a children’s gymnasium...
...Meanwhile, back in the plastic surgery suites of Beverly Hills, watch for a brand new calculus of fat reduction to emerge: If liposuction can help science, will whittling your waist become a philanthropic act? Will plastic surgeons be canonized...