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...years are a blur of impressions now, filled with glimpses of professors and classes, friends and activities. I remember Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, teaching Nat. Sci. 5, interjecting modestly upon occasion, “I knew Albert Einstein, you see. And I once told Albert...” Wald never lacked ego, but he was riveting...
...telling that to the millions who have bought Apple's iMac. The academicians are also under-estimating the attraction of ultra-portability. In the public consciousness, wearables are the logical future - the destiny, if you like - of computing. Think of all those neat-o gadgets that populate sci-fi flicks and cartoons. The ones that grab the imagination are usually small, affixed to the wrist, the lapel or the belt - in other words, wearable. Or consider the now-ubiquitous Palm handheld computer. When it first hit the market, all it could do was store phone numbers and messages somewhat more...
...Guin is also one of the few science fiction writers to achieve widespread literary recognition outside the sometimes insular sci-fi and fantasy community. Kurt Vonnegut described the problem while looking back at the publication of his first novel, _The Sirens of Titan_. "I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'science fiction' ever since," he wrote, "and I would like out, particularly because so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal...
...Booth, Farrell plays a New York exec who answers a public phone and is told he'll be shot if he hangs upa plum role originally intended for Jim Carrey. He was cast in Hart's War after Edward Norton dropped out and jumped onto Spielberg's $60 million sci-fi thriller Minority Report when Matt Damon bailed. Farrell is the first to admit his success is due as much to luck as talent. "If that's part of the reason I got Hart's War, I couldn't care less," he replies. "For whatever reason, the stars have aligned...
...months JESSICA ALBA--who plays the omni-racial, genetically perfect and tantalizingly saucy character Max Guevara on James Cameron's sci-fi dweeb spectacular Dark Angel--has danced a softshoe around rumors that she and co-star MICHAEL WEATHERLY were dating. She even resorted to the "just good friends" line. This week her publicist confirmed what those in nerddom feared all along: not only are the couple involved, they're engaged. Alba is 20. Weatherly is 32. It seems superfluous to mention that this is Alba's first marriage, but hey, it is. Weatherly, who plays wheelchair-bound cyberjournalist Logan...