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...organizers of last week’s Female Orgasm Seminar, in an e-mail. “I would rather use a LifeStyles condom than not have sex or have unprotected sex.” She said Japanese-brand condoms such as Kimono and Inspiral were thinner and stronger, because they conform to higher safety regulations. “If Harvard is interested in students having safer sex, we should be given the condoms that are least likely to break!” she wrote. “It is nominally more expensive, but so worth...
Since the new iPod is 30% thinner, people will have enough room in their pockets for a couple more credit cards to buy even more frivolous stuff...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
...least. And yet that approach produces shiny, innovative things like the new iPod. Even though it costs the same ($299) as its immediate predecessor, which Apple introduced only 15 months ago, the new iPod has more memory (30 GB as opposed to 20 GB), and it's thinner (0.43 in., as opposed to 0.6 in.). Plus, it plays video. The screen is just 2.5 in. diagonally, but because it's extremely bright and very sharp, it looks bigger than it is. It's the kind of thing you could definitely imagine being unable to live without...
With an even thinner paper trail than John Roberts', Harriet Miers has left both supporters and opponents guessing. To gauge her thinking on key legal issues, they are combing through everything from old bar-association newsletters to interviews with her fellow churchgoers. Here's a look at the scant evidence...