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...concept of quantum teleportation, first postulated in 1993 by IBM researcher Charles Bennet, has been likened to voodoo. But it is a reality, due in large part to the work of Nicolas Gisin, 52, and his 20 or so graduate students and research assistants at the University of Geneva's Group of Applied Physics. In the basement of the university's old medical-school building, Gisin commands a series of laboratories crisscrossed with laser beams and crowded with the gizmos that make teleportation possible: photon counters, interferometers and plain old mirrors that bounce the lasers around. Last year Gisin...
MAGICAL GADGET: Portkeys, everyday objects that instantly teleport wizards who touch them...
...digs into his portrayal of Magneto with gusto. Hugh Jackman again embodies the tortured hostility of Wolverine, right down to the ferocious snarl. Perhaps the most unusual casting decision was to consign the eccentric, effeminate Alan Cumming to the role of Nightcrawler, a blue-skinned mutant who can teleport himself and anyone he holds, provided he can see his destination. However, Cumming’s performance defies even the most doubtful critics, charging his character with layers of spiritual and emotional depth...
...That's why, Lewis and others argue, in the New Age bookstores and yoga centers from Berlin to Los Angeles where Barks' and other modernized versions of Rumi have found such an enthusiastic following these days, a certain tension is often missing. Barks' versions, Lewis claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs...
...leads the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries' Association, gave himself up to the police. Ecleo has about 1 million followers in the Philippines, who believe he is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. AUSTRALIA Just Another Trick of the Light In an experiment straight out of Star Trek, two Australian scientists teleported information between two laser beams a meter apart. The scientists made use of a phenomenon called quantum entanglement to dismantle a signal-transmitted in photons, or particles of light-in one shaft of laser light and instantaneously rebuild a replica of it in a second laser beam. Star Trek-style transporters...