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...plain to see that their minds were drifting. Every moment or so they would glance at their laptops and then try (unsuccessfully) to concentrate on my words. Normally, I might take offense, but this was different. I was, by pure chance, in building 41 at Google in Mountain View, California for a meeting that had been planned more than a month ago. Who could have known that it would turn out to be the day that the company would announce its long-awaited initial public offering...
Inflatable rides have become an essential ingredient of Springfest. Bouncy Boxing, in which opponents on an inflated stage box each other with oversized mitts, drew scores of students. Other favorites included Human Foosball, Pedestal Joust, Whirly Bird, Rocky Mountain and an inflated climbing wall...
...does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says. "I don't have to make a great effort." He estimates his writing speed at an astonishing 1,000 words an hour. That leaves him plenty of time to meet with director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain) about a film adaptation of the Ramotswe books, fulfill his duties as a member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Commission and practice the bassoon with his group, the Really Terrible Orchestra...
...much resolve as she. Kidman's postmarital roles have included a clinically depressed writer (Virginia Woolf in The Hours for which she won an Oscar), an abused cleaning lady recovering from the death of her children (The Human Stain), a woman barely getting by during the Civil War (Cold Mountain) and a fugitive victimized by nasty townspeople in the West (Dogville). Sometimes unhappiness is its own reward...
Tarter is director of research at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif., where her job is to keep her ears open. The universe fairly roars with electromagnetic noise, most of which flows in randomly. If any arrived in regular pulses, it would be a good bet that something smart was doing the sending...