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...hunger to get a piece of the famous and the psychology behind that desire are the substance of her intellectually agile but emotionally lacking follow-up, The Autograph Man (Random House; 347 pages). In it Alex-Li Tandem as a boy develops a fascination with celebrity signatures; in the poignant prologue, his father takes him to a wrestling match and drops dead of a brain tumor as Alex is jockeying to get a famous wrestler's autograph. Before dying, Alex's father gives him a signed pound note as a bet on the match, sealing the psycho-paternal importance...
...Maroc plane, raising fears the material was planted for use in a terror attack. The wad of plastic explosives - similar to that carried by alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid - had been wedged beneath an armrest with no detonation device attached. It was found by sniffer dogs during a random inspection of the flight from Marrakesh, Morocco. French antiterror officials said the find may have thwarted a two-step plot, in which one operative planted the bombing material for an accomplice to outfit with a detonator and explode during a later flight. RUSSIA Bloody Ingush Dozens of Russian servicemen and Chechen...
...identifying socially in the next four years? He’ll probably be involved in a multitude of activities, definitely at least club-level athletics. He’s a partyer and he likes to hang out with his suitemates and other random people...
...fact remains that Reeve is again moving and feeling--if slightly--making his the first known case in which a so-called C-2 quad has regained so much function so long after injury. And that's big news. Reeve's book describing his improvement, Nothing Is Impossible (Random House), will be published this week. On Wednesday at 10 p.m. E.T., ABC will air a documentary directed by his 22-year-old son Matthew, showing a day in Reeve's life. "I may be an isolated case," Reeve says. "But that shows we no longer know the limits of recovery...
...year, Nantero expects to produce a commercial prototype for a chip with "nonvolatile random-access memory" (NRAM), which means its chips won't forget how to run all its programs when the power is switched off. The technology uses arrays of 2-nm strands of carbon atoms, called carbon nanotubes, that convey electrons faster than copper and are 100 times as strong as steel at a fraction of the weight. Pairs of tubes store data by locking together when a current runs through them and stay together even when the computer power is switched off and back on. The tubes...