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...covered his mouth and dashed for the toilet when Von Hagens made his first cuts through the cadaver's yellow, distended paunch. (The show's leading man was a prodigious whisky drinker and two-pack-a-day smoker.) Others found urgent reading material as Von Hagens sawed through the skull. Michael Wilks, chairman of the British Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee, said the event and exhibition were "degrading and sensational rather than educational." But can't education and sensationalism coexist? That's certainly the way it used to be. In 1543, the same year Copernicus published his revolutionary work...
...phone on your belt wherever you go? In the future, you may not have to. Two British researchers have developed a prototype "phone tooth" that can be embedded in a molar and receive cell-phone calls. The signals are translated into vibrations that travel from the tooth to your skull to your inner ear--where only you can hear them. Great for giving instructions to spies and NFL quarterbacks. Not so great for the rest of us, because while our teeth may talk to us, we can't talk back to them. INVENTORS James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau AVAILABILITY Prototype...
Last Saturday morning, as demonstrators against a U.S. attack on Iraq trickled onto the lawns next to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., a woman in a cowboy hat and a skull mask worked the edges of the crowd. She handed me a neat, word-processed flier from a stack under her arm. There were no “Muslim terrorists” on the flights on Sept. 11, it said. The whole atrocity was set up by the U.S. government, which directed the planes by remote-control. About ten web addresses followed. I pursued the woman to the next...
...returning from Washington, I told a Harvard friend about the woman in the skull mask. “The extremists are inevitable,” he replied. “That’s why I don’t go to rallies.” Most Harvard students are embarrassed by the trappings of demonstrations and the extremists who frequent them. We practice critical thinking all day. By night, we write response papers ripping apart political theories and literary masterpieces. The earnest “Hey hey, ho ho, war in Iraq must go” of the kids...
...Doonesbury or even those Boondocks kids to tap into a real, terrified American consciousness. Over the past year, in a country newly raw to terrorism and wartime brutality, the Get Your War On web-links hopped from cubicle to office to dormitory. Now Rees has a publisher, Soft Skull Press (run by Richard Nash ’92-’93), and a bound copy of his comic...