Word: trails
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Feynman's curiosity has led him to unexpected places: close to the ground where he used his nose to learn how bloodhounds follow a trail, into topless restaurants where he indulged his interest in sketching anatomy, and inside sensory-deprivation tanks to experience hallucinations. His attention wavers and his patience wanes at forms of political and social studies that assume the trappings of science without the rigor. He insists on intellectual integrity, "a kind of leaning over backwards," to discover possibilities that may not be congenial to the investigator's conclusions...
...paper he will give at the Bach gala. But late last month he received a phone call from a journalist in Amsterdam who said he had heard rumors of "possible unknown Bach works in a private collection in America." Wolff said he "thought someone might be on the trail" and decided to make his discovery known...
...announced that it had arrested Jay Wesley Neill, 19, the man they believe to be the "Geronimo Killer," at a Holiday Inn in San Francisco. Arrested with him was Robert Grady Johnson, 22, who is said to have driven the getaway car. Behind them they had left a trail of credit-card receipts and travel reservations...
Alerted by a rancher who spotted the smoke of a campfire, France, alone and on foot, picked up their trail last week. He followed their tracks through snow and across rocky terrain for four miles. Rifle in hand, he slipped quietly toward their campsite, then strode almost casually into the opening. "Seen any coyotes around?" he asked. The father jumped up and reached for his rifle. "Please don't make me kill you!" warned the sheriff. France promised the thinly dressed but well-armed fugitives "a warm bed and warm food and warm water," then marched them into...
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was a star child of the '60s. It yoked trail-blazing technical wizardry to intergalactic mysticism, propelling man into space and through the time barrier to confront his own past and a new race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke...