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...record, earning the "blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, with its two turbocharged, 2,000-h.p. diesel engines. Retorted Branson: "To say (the award) has only to do with passenger liners is a lot of codswallop." To back his claim, he has decided to create his own trophy for the next successful Atlantic...
...computer common room in Bell Laboratories' six-story brick quarters in Murray Hill, N.J., is strewn with a herd of toy sheep, an assortment of plastic ducks and a glass beaker that contains a Madagascar hissing cockroach. Walking along one of the facility's narrow, institutional-green corridors, Mathematician Ronald Graham effortlessly juggles six spinning white balls. Some days the balls are black. Not long ago, in a nearby office, a shimmying belly dancer tried to perk up a brooding scientist who was convinced that he had lost his zest for research. Since its founding on New Year...
...conduct. Obviously, that is just a cover story for experiments with weaponry. And so Paul and Jenny work out a way to nick some plutonium in a manner that wittily combines a sophisticated analysis of the lab's security system with kid-stuff inventiveness (their tools include a toy truck, Frisbees and a bottle of shampoo...
Kashani's sense of the ironic comes through in whatever he does, whether he's erecting a black tower to mock SASC's white tower, or he's dressing up as a German stormtrooper and firing toy cannons during his high school's field day. "It's never been entirely clear to me how serious Saied is" about his political activities, said Damon Silvers '86. "There's an element of the prankster...
...Midway Islands, 45 had eaten some form of the substance. In several, the plastic had either obstructed the digestive tract or caused ulcers. Says James Coe, program manager for the Marine Entanglement Research Program at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle: "We have found everything from toy soldiers to pens, fishing bobbers and poker chips in the birds' stomachs." A study of wedge-tailed shearwaters, which breed on central Pacific islands, showed that 60% of the adults surveyed had ingested plastic. Even sea gulls, which are able to disgorge disagreeable food, are not immune to the plastic threat. They...