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...ideas like soy paper disks that look and taste like sushi and whole carbonated grapes that fizz when you pop them into your mouth (he calls them "champagne"). Lately he has been experimenting with food levitation. By injecting helium into froths and zapping smaller substances with an ion-particle gun, he hopes someday to float plate-free meals above the dining-room table. Cantu says Oscar Meyer representatives recently approached him about helping them create a kid-friendly edible menu. Instead he persuaded them to consider edible advertising. "Think about opening up a magazine and finding a secret-coded flavor...
Lajeunesse peeked over Lussier to look at the gunman. "His face was a mixture of anger and fear," she recalls. Their eyes met. He raised his gun and fired. Lajeunesse ducked. She felt something warm and wet coating her jeans. It was Lussier's blood. "I thought I was going to die," Lajeunesse says, but her friend had taken the fatal blow. "Chase saved my life...
...other targets, shooting and killing Dewayne Lewis, Thurlene Stillday, Chanelle Rosebear and Alicia White as they huddled on the floor. He left the room and exchanged fire with police officers, who were advancing down the hallway. Retreating into Rogers' classroom, he yelled, "I have hostages!" Then he turned a gun on himself and pulled the trigger. Silent throughout the ordeal, the surviving students began to scream...
Bernie Ebbers left no paper trail. He didn't like e-mail, preferring to give vague orders to subordinates, like telling his chief financial officer, Scott Sullivan, to "hit the numbers." According to Ebbers' trial lawyer, Reid Weingarten, there was no smoking gun, no hard evidence to implicate the former chief of WorldCom--a college dropout, Sunday-school teacher and small-town basketball coach--as the orchestrator of the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. "You thought you could trust him," says Alex Bryant, an ex--WorldCom sales manager in Springfield, Mo. Soon after WorldCom bought MCI, Bryant recalls, Ebbers...
...Another Titan Takes a Tumble," above), as the company's legal woes mounted. WorldCom's collapse hit directors where it counted: their wallets. Last week 11 former directors agreed to pay $20 million of their own money to settle a class action by investors. "Any time you put a gun to directors' heads, you'll get them to exercise more oversight," says Columbia Law School professor John Coffee...