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DIED. SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor who created the first automobile crash test dummy, an articulated model of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test parachutes and jet ejection seats, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called...
...course, he becomes a superhero—“The Great Machine”—and dons a really goofy-looking suit. With the help of his best friend and his mentor, he builds the cool gadgets that start coming to him in dreams. Zipping around the city in a jetpack, he tries to save lives. Problem is, he’s not so good at it. His wild powers end up causing more trouble than they prevent. In a typical example, he saves a kid by shouting “full stop...
...allow for beautiful artistic and narrative latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is…those things would have happened with or without...
Despite his status as a veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...
Despite his status as a veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...