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...prevent the people of these countries from learning the truth and having their say if they can. If George Bush were to start a ground war in order to get it over before too many people, be they Arabs or non-Arabs, change their minds, it would take true Rube Goldberg reasoning to blame the resulting casualties on the press...
...hypothesis to survive this crisis would take such complicated physics that the cosmos would have to operate like a Rube Goldberg machine. For the most part, though, nature follows simple rules. So while cold dark matter may exist, astronomers are beginning to search elsewhere to solve the mystery of how the galaxies were born...
Some of the exchanges' critics want to go further. They recommend that Chicago's quaint system of making deals with shouts and hand signals be replaced with automated computerized trading, as has been done in Tokyo and London. "It is time to jettison this Rube Goldberg . . . system and replace it with a sophisticated electronic system that records trades as they happen," said Massachusetts Democrat Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications and finance...
...series, which turned Bob Kane's superhero into a camp crusader. Director Tim Burton's approach is dead serious. He renounces the bright palette, the easy thrills, to aim for a psychodrama with the force of myth. He creates a Gotham City that looms like a rube's nightmare of Manhattan. He strips the Bruce Wayne legend down to its chassis, dumping Robin and the goony rogues' gallery. This is a face-off between two men in weird masks: one in a leathery black item out of a dominatrix's pleasure chest, the other with a grin frozen into...
...Back to 1904 and the American League. Philadelphia's Rube Waddell led the league in strikeouts and became the first pitcher in the 20th century to chalk up two consecutive 300-plus strikeout seasons. His strikeout tally in 1904 was the most by any pitcher in a single season until Sandy Koufax fanned 382 batters in 1965. How many batters did Waddell strike...