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...that doesn't mean it's a good idea to play mad scientist in them. Public dining rooms are also like cathedrals. You go to them looking for a mixture of spectacle and serenity. You want to be awestruck. You're also hoping to find space for a little quiet reflection, even if it's just over the pros and cons of a seared scallop. And while it's true that a long evening at a good table should also provide some theater, a sense of occasion, the occasion should not be Halloween. When you're trying to focus...
MILESTONES: A former Atlanta mayor is indicted; a rocket scientist is dead...
...find a fresh voice that suits them. In this show, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc's sweet-hearted dope, heads West to jump-start his career and reconnect with his equally Noo Yawky sister Gina (The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo). We also meet his nephew Michael (Paulo Costanzo), a rocket scientist; his sharky agent, Bobbie (one-woman brass band Jennifer Coolidge); and his bland, pretty, married neighbor Alex (Andrea Anders). But none of these types are fresh or memorable. There's no Niles. Not even a Squiggy...
DIED. FRED WHIPPLE, 97, inventor and rocket scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Mass. Whipple correctly proposed that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its tail is formed by particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the sun. Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known...
...Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and James Brown in the 1950s and '60s. In 1968 he moved to New York City to join the McCann Erickson ad agency, where he came up with the 1971 Coke theme song, which later became a pop hit. DIED. BOB EVANS, 77, computer scientist whose work in the '60s helped substantially reduce the cost of powerful computing; in Hillsborough, California. As an IBM engineering manager, he convinced the company to invest more than $5 billion in developing the famous S/360 class computer that helped turn IBM into a data-processing power soon after its introduction...