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Agents have been forbidden to respond to Whitehurst's specific charges, but several claim that although he is a superior scientist, he would become petulant or vindictive when his superiors disagreed with him. "He was an impossible kind of guy to work with," says an official involved in the World Trade Center case. "If you were doing an investigation in a schoolhouse and there was an alphabet above the board and L and Z were missing, Fred would not venture an opinion that that had been an alphabet...
Like birds, which evolved independently 70 million years later, pterosaurs had bones that were hollow and lightweight. (One scientist refers to pterosaur skeletons as "Styrofoam and mailing tubes.") But of all the trademarks of a pterosaur, one of the most peculiar was its hand, which boasted three clawlike fingers of normal size and a fourth digit that was outlandishly long. It was this fourth finger that provided structural support for the wings. Made of a skin-like membrane, the wings were supported by thousands of microscopic fibers that acted rather like the ribs of a folding umbrella, creating a flexible...
...book offers many such pointed moments. Kramer quotes a West German after the Wall has come down, saying, "What can I possibly say to an East Berlin scientist who, after years of trying, finally gets permission to travel, and buys an old piece of western equipment for his lab, and spends a year rebuilding it, and is proud of it--and then scientists from the West arrive and say, 'This East German science is ridiculous,' and his lab is closed." In her chapter about the opening of the Stasi files, Kramer focuses on a poet, Alexander Anderson...
...different from that most commonly used by U.S. manufacturers. They also come in flavors: clove, menthol and even strawberry. Popular brands include Mangalore Ganesh and Kailas. Despite the buzz that beedies deliver, FDA analysis finds they contain no hallucinogens. Says Suresh Ralapati, a native of India and a tobacco scientist at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: "Perhaps the fact that they look like joints interests the young people." Beedies cost from $2.50 to $3 per pack of 20. (A pack of unfiltered Camels can range from $1.25 to $3.15.) Why the expense for such tiny smokes...
Fred Martin, a research scientist who works with Borovoy, says the tags have many promising uses. In a large corporate setting, they could help build consensus around controversial ideas. Another project, launched last week, uses the tags to help demonstrate to high school kids how easily diseases like aids can spread. Of course, Thinking Tags have an application that might seem particularly marketable to computer types more comfortable in cyberspace than in boy-meets-girl realspace. "The one that comes up 99% of the time is the singles bar," says Borovoy. "So if you don't mention that...