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...centuries, he propounds the law of wave motion, suggesting that it is water's "percussive" force rather than water itself that is moving. Sketching a water drop splattering on a flat surface, he catches its precise, crownlike spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them. So he destroyed it, he says, lest "the evil nature...
...historians Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen probably wish they had waited a month or so before publishing Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage (Random House; 633 pages; $30). If they had, they could have sneaked in a page or two on the spectacular story of veteran CIA officer Harold Nicholson, who was arrested a few weeks ago for selling secrets to the Russians...
...Harold J. Nicholson may have had good reason to be nervous last December. He was sitting down to his third lie-detector test in eight weeks. The first of them had been a routine examination, the kind given every few years to agency employees. Since coming on board in 1980, Nicholson had been quietly but smoothly rising through the agency ranks. Now he was an instructor at Camp Peary, the CIA training facility near Williamsburg, Virginia, teaching new spies what older ones know. For instance, what to do when the other side...
...League it isn't. Camp Peary, where accused double agent Harold Nicholson taught from 1994 to 1996, is the CIA's top-secret school for spies, known in agency circles as "the Farm." Students, called career trainees, take a year-long, $150,000-per-recruit program that prepares them to work in the agency's clandestine service. Located on 9,000 acres of barbed-wire-encircled woods outside Williamsburg, Virginia, the Farm looks like a community college, with brick buildings, dorms, a cafeteria and a gym laid out on a bucolic campus. But it also has such uncollegiate features...
...James Girolamo, 5, or Everett Webre, a mature 4, which Saturday-morning television shows they like best, and they will look at you blankly as though you were quizzing them about hedge funds or Harold Pinter. The boys, no budding back-to-the-landers, are the sons of TV-friendly Manhattan media professionals, but neither James nor Everett has ever watched Saturday-morning cartoons. "This is family time," explains Everett's mom Priscilla Glover, "one of the few times during the week we can all be together. Everett knows he can watch the Disney Channel whenever he wants...