Word: verboten
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...Britain: If the heart doth lead the way, the Windsors are allowed to bespouse equines, badgers or pit bulls Monaco: Stephanie is eternally consigned to the circus. Prince Albert-in-a-can jokes are strictly verboten The Netherlands: All members of the bicycle-loving royal family are given free examinations for testicular cancer Spain: Dashing princes are required to wed dim, tanned-all-over Scandinavian models Italy: The royal family, exiled since 1946, are allowed to return to their thrones?provided they can spawn and install heirs as frequently as Rome produces Prime Ministers Thailand: No male may surgically transform...
...puzzle for him. Last week two independent groups of researchers, one in the U.S. and one in Italy,each claimed to have found a way to make light travel faster than its regular cruising speed of 186,000 m.p.s. According to the special theory of relativity, that's verboten; the velocity of light is supposed to be the cosmic speed limit, which nothing can exceed. Nevertheless, a physicist, Lijun Wang of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says he revved up a beam of light as much as 300 times its normal speed, using a special chamber filled with...
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...distinction? Wal-Mart executives attribute the decision to the customers, who say they expect to be able to buy beer and wine in supercenters just as they do at competitors' stores of a similar type. Yet booze will remain verboten in fuddy-duddy old Wal-Mart discount stores. Explains Glass: "What's the difference between selling in a supercenter and a Wal-Mart? I can't tell you I can give you a definite answer. But I can tell you that I have a rationale for it." Nevertheless, within the company and without, there was muttering that Sam--Wal-Mart...
...cause car accidents, and they may give you brain cancer. Now, it seems, they may be combustible. Almost sheepishly claiming that "prudence is probably the best policy," BP Amoco spokeswoman Linda McCray announced Friday that cell phone use near fuel pumps at its U.S. gas stations will now be verboten. "This is not a ban - this is a precautionary warning," she explained, pointing to the very slim possibility that a malfunctioning cell phone could generate sparks and cause an entire station - not to mention the offending gabber - to go kerblooey...