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...entire ceremony takes a humorous and somewhat strange look into the world of science. Ten prizes are awarded to individuals who have done impressively ridiculous and weird things such as demonstrating that, biochemically, romantic love is indistinguishable from obsessive-compulsive disorder or creating the self-perfuming business suit. Although many of the ideas and discoveries of the recipients are fairly useless, that’s just the way these mad scientists like it. The awards are presented to the year’s winners by somewhat bemused Nobel laureates. Presenters this year include Sheldon Glashow, Dudley Herschbach, William Lipscomb, Richard...
...Disney movies. Meet a boy, go on a date, fall in love, live happily ever after. And while most dream of their prince proposing at midnight on a windswept beach or at the climax of a candlelit dinner, the way Barkley elected to pop the question seemed to suit the happy couple just fine. After accepting the abundance of congratulations and good wishes that were showered upon them, Barkley and Ausman excused themselves. With their departure, the sparkle of romance dissipated and the meeting resumed its agenda. As they basked in their post-proposal glow, Barkley and Ausman once again...
...unpredictable, and it’s completely inane. Who knows how you’d fare in blanking a skinny six-foot-nothing nobody with no organized basketball experience? The way I see it, if you can’t hold me scoreless, you really shouldn’t suit up again, anyway...
It’s little wonder, then, that Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, has been getting cozy with the U.S. State Department’s usual suspects, Cuba and Iraq, and has been persuading other Latin American leaders to follow suit. At a recent conference in China, he denounced Americans as cold-blooded “imperialists,” making the developing world even less receptive to American tourism...
...soulless, slick, electronic muzak. Yet something is not quite right—rather than being the irritatingly-pacifying background-stuff, it keeps sneaking into your frontal lobes with growls of distortion, electronic shrieks and incendiary little licks. As the elevator gathers pace, your colleagues strip off their suit-jackets and ties, and the elevator becomes a sky-rocketing disco?...