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Oddest among the exhibits are two life-size, life-shape, white plaster models of Groves and Oppenheimer: the one, thick-fleshed in an oversize Army uniform, the cast accurate to the bulge in Groves' breast pocket, perhaps made by the chocolates to which he reportedly was addicted; the other skinny, stooped, in an unpressed civilian suit and floppy hat. From hats to shoes, all white, the two of them. All white, too, is a model of "Little Boy" lying on the floor--120 in. long, 28 in. in diameter, nearly 9,000 lbs.--looking like a small, friendly Moby Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Physicist Saw: A New World, A Mystic World | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...must get it tended to. I have a four-hour layover, so airport officials get me a taxi and instruct the driver to take me to the closest hospital on the outskirts of Moscow. After X-raying my foot, the doctors confirm it is a fracture, apply a plaster cast, give me a pair of crutches and send me back to the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: My Life So Far | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...dressed-up scenesters queues. Lame kids, admittedly. A skinny-tied Scandinavian joins the end of the 100-person line. He has a black eye and is shouting into his mobile phone in broken English. Some kid had hit him in the street and run off. I hug the cracked plaster frame to the entrance and tell Jack to hurry up and sell his extra...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What I Learned From Doc | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

After the photo shoot, Zeta-Jones and her entourage moved into the Hasty Pudding’s theater, with its chipping plaster, peeling paint, and ancient creaky seats. Members of the press lined a wall as friends and family of the cast took...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Are They Here? | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

Installing new wiring in older buildings would necessarily interfere more with students’ suites—with the potential for “dust, plaster, and paint getting all over people’s clothes,” Davis said...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Houses To Launch Wireless | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

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