Word: shaban
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Across the hall in the prep room of the lecture demonstration department, Brian Shaban divulges the true origins of the sign. Shaban, group leader of the Science Center electronics shop, explains that the sign was put up in the 1980s by members of the lecture demonstration department to poke fun at their more staid colleagues across the hall at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. “[The sign] was one of those nerd jokes,” he says...
...occasional wayward tourist does catch sight of the sign and wander into the lecture demonstration prep shop, requesting to see “those hysterical scientific instruments,” Shaban says. It’s more than an occasional annoyance, for the staff of the department, though. “We once painted over the sign when we got tired of people asking to see the hysterical instruments,” Shaban bemoans. Apparently, though, nerds rule in the lecture demonstration department—the sign has been restored...
...which opened in 1989, has been under surveillance since its days in the 1990s as a base for both humanitarian and military aid to Muslims in Bosnia. In June 1995, police raided the premises and arrested dozens of men on allegations of terrorism. One of Shaari?s predecessors, Anwar Shaban, who was under investigation in Italy for possible terrorist links, was later killed under mysterious circumstances in Croatia after going to help the Bosnian cause. The Milan institute?s name pops up again in the trial of suspects in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa...