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...unconscious subjects, monitoring their breathing and noting the effects of sleep deprivation, scientists still don't know the answers to some of the most basic questions, like why we need to sleep in the first place. That hasn't stopped some wild ideas from gaining popularity. In December, Pocket Books paid a whopping $200,000 advance for a yet-to-be published book that claims you can lose weight by sleeping longer. (Darn! Why didn't I think of that...
...some kind of alternative health care, typically chiropractic, acupuncture or massage therapy, according to a new study by Landmark Healthcare. In the future look for HMOs to expand coverage for vitamin therapy and acupressure, though you may still have to pay for kava or ginkgo out of your own pocket...
...personally landed in the new world four years earlier, with a newly minted Nobel Prize gold medal in his pocket, pre-eminent among a distillation of outstanding scientists who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s to escape anti-Semitic persecution in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy--in Fermi's case, of his Jewish wife Laura...
Fermi proceeded imperturbably through the experiment, confident of the estimates he had charted with his pocket slide rule. At 11:30 a.m., as was his custom, he stopped for lunch. The pile went critical in midafternoon with the full withdrawal of the control rods, and Fermi allowed himself a grin. He had proved the science of a chain reaction in uranium; from then on, building a bomb was mere engineering. He shut the pile down after 28 minutes of operation. Wigner had thought to buy a celebratory fiasco of Chianti, which supplied a toast. "For some time we had known...
...choosers. And really, my co-eds are otherwise doing a great job on the mag--I don't want to rock the boat here by telling everyone to shape up or ship out. But these cliches don't help anything or anyone--they're about as useless as a pocket in a pair of underpants...