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DIED. JIM CAPALDI, 60, drummer and co-founder, with Steve Winwood, of the '60s band Traffic, whose hits included Paper Sun and Hole in My Shoe; of stomach cancer; in London. After the band split up in 1974, Capaldi went on to a successful solo career, hitting the charts with a '70s cover of Roy Orbison's Love Hurts...
...says??there's??no??such??thing??as??a??eureka??moment? Physicist David Grier sure had one. Grier and graduate student Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap"--a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. They knew that multiple traps, used in tandem, could let scientists play traffic cops on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts--removing bacteria from blood, for example. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick...
...Adjacent to the Vietnamese capital's historic train station, Hanoi's hippest new hangout is a replica of an old frontier watering hole in the American West. A five-meter-tall cowboy stands outside, twirling a neon lasso over the saloon. Inside, the split-rail walls are decorated with cowboy memorabilia?from cowboy boots to a mounted cowskin?and since it opened in October, trendy young Vietnamese have been packing through the Seventeen Saloon's swinging doors and whooping it up with whiskey and tequila served by waitresses in cowboy hats and jeans...
...previous generation's mass divorces has something to do with the healthy skepticism shown by the twixters. They will spend a few years looking before they leap, thank you very much. "I fantasize more about sharing a place with someone than about my wedding day," says Galantha, whose parents split when she was 18. "I haven't seen a lot of good marriages...
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Five servings of fruits and vegetables a day--the old standard--aren't enough anymore if you want to maintain good nutrition and prevent disease. The new goal is nine servings of about half a cup each, split between four servings of fruit per day and five of vegetables or legumes...