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...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...
...many of us moaned out loud when I.B. Cohenof Nat Sci III assaulted us with the worst everexam questions? "What was the final temperature ofthe beaker of water into which fell the steel ballthat had bounced off the nail after it rolled andfell off the table which was X inches off thefloor...
...prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient smells of dust, goat dung and thyme, immemorial sounds of cicada and rustic flute-"O for a beaker full of the warm South!" In such places, color might take on a primary, clarified role. Far from the veils and nuances of Paris fog and Dutch rain, it would resolve itself into tonic declaration-nouns that stood for wellbeing. Such, at least, was Van Gogh's hope...
...return to action, British Secret Service officials put him through a medical examination that includes a urine test. But seen an English hospital affords Bond little production. A random assassin chases the aging Bond through the hospital and traps him in a laboratory, desperation. Bond picks up the nearest beaker and throws its contents at the assailant, who recoils and impales himself on a wall of test tubes. Connery casually looks at the beaker, which is belled "James Bond's urine." Portrait of the self-sufficient secret agent...
...this is how we do it," says Barbara Mangum, one of the six interns receiving advanced training in art conservation at the Center. Lying on the table in front of Mangum are two seventh century B.C. bronze Chinese vases, a cluster of Babylonian cuneiform tablets soaking in a beaker of water, and a coffee-table sized Egyptian mummy. The mummy, Mangum says, is not cursed...