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...back of their minds, those researchers always remember that the scientific establishment has a long history of scoffing at big, implausible ideas that ultimately turned out to be correct: the assertion that the Earth orbits the sun, the idea that brain-wasting diseases are caused by misshapen proteins, the proposition that hand washing can prevent doctors from transmitting disease, the claim that continents can drift across the surface of the world--all these and more were scorned at first...
DIED. CHARLIE MUSE, 87, executive for baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates who developed the modern batting helmet; in Sun City Center, Fla. At the behest of Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, he (along with inventor Ralph Davia and designer Ed Crick) came up with a plastic model to protect the batter's head. Despite initial image concerns of players, the helmets were soon adopted by the Pirates and other major league clubs...
...remain a bafflement-although it's clear from titles like Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head and Every Planet We Reach Is Dead that in the future, according to Gorillaz, we'll need more sunscreen-but the music achieves the same kind of thrilling dislocation as vintage Sun Ra, without any of the unfortunate cat-yelping antimelodiousness. Melodies are everywhere; they just take a while to emerge because Albarn and Burton have stirred them all together. Dirty Harry has the shimmering keyboards of The Message and the eerily blank kiddie chorus of Another Brick in the Wall...
...save nearly $49 billion over the next 20 years. But what's "striking" about the base-closing plan, says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the nonpartisan Lexington Institute think tank in Arlington, Va., is "the geographical migration of the military out of the Frost Belt and into the Sun Belt." Northern states such as Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey will lose more than 19,000 military and civilian jobs at the facilities on Rumsfeld's hit list, while three Southern states, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, will have a net gain of 16,237 jobs...
...admits to losing a night of sleep to play games; and another quarter has been engrossed enough to skip meals. Club Pogo and Sims players average 18 and 20 hours a week on their games. Like a Vegas casino, this is a world in which the sun never rises or sets and your new best friends are arrayed around the card table. All that's missing is the free drinks...