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...foundation of a new lodge Gomez is building in the cloud forest. Home to the endangered spectacled bear, a brilliant orange bird called cock of the rock and dozens of species of hummingbirds, the forest is an utterly green world. Plants, mosses and trees are so thick on the vertiginous mountain slopes that trails have a trampoline-like feel underfoot...
...there's anyone who should know how to guard against leaks, it's John Martin, chief of internal security at the Justice Department. Yet Martin went home from the office one night in April, leaving a thick pile of supersensitive documents on the Iran-contra affair sitting on his desk. A routine security sweep that night revealed his carelessness and earned Martin an immediate suspension. Justice insiders say Martin may receive further punishment for the accidental security breach but will probably be able to return...
...problems of science are complex and interaction with Washington is becoming thick and muddled," added Ciappianni. "But again it doesn't have to be a scientist to solve these problems...
...thin films of buckyballs and studded them with impurities that help the molecules carry electric current. Their report indicates such film could lead to a new class of useful superconductors. Other items on the buckyball wish list include tiny ball bearings, featherweight batteries and wires perhaps only one molecule thick...
Then he disappeared -- though not completely. "After 39 years," he explained in an interview with TIME, "I owe the family and myself a little time." There were steaks to eat (thick and rare), ice cream to scarf down (Breyers mint chocolate chip), family members and pets with whom to get reacquainted (wife Brenda, son Christian, 13, daughters Jessica, 19, and Cynthia, 20, and a black Lab named Bear). He could catch up with Jeopardy and Cheers. Come Sunday, he could go to a real church and sit in a pew without sand in his boots. And while he savored...