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...prison museum Cain has built, where all the T shirts, coffee mugs and videos have the name ANGOLA printed in big letters, Cain points his thick fingers at pictures of the men he has executed. "They're special people to me," he says...
...neat desk at 7 a.m., fires people who don't measure up and gets even quietly--he's a popular boss. He dines at his desk off Styrofoam, rides up front with the driver of his government car and thinks a perfect night on the town is a thick steak at the Palm with his son William Jr. (A second son died of lung disease when he was eight years old.) He's a neighbor of Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Fred Thompson in a downtown condo and visits his wife and two daughters in Chicago on weekends. Unlike some...
...senior year, I had thought the Yard was the sum of the College, so I was shocked to discover those Georgian acres by the River. The Eliot courtyard was a second shock. The grass was pristine and emerald after a summer of crisp maintenance, and the trees were thick with late summer. I was overcome by the primary colors of Harvard--green grass, red brick, white mortar and trim, blue river through the iron gates. Upperclassmen lay quietly on the lawn talking or reading books, a social world apart from the forced friendliness (and friend-lessness) of the Yard. From...
...articles are a recurring theme." But even Mead admits that by 2014 the laws of physics may have their final revenge. Transistor components are fast approaching the dreaded point-one limit--when the width of transistor components reaches .1 microns and their insulating layers are only a few atoms thick. Last year Intel engineer Paul Packan publicly sounded the alarm in Science magazine, warning that Moore's law could collapse. He wrote, "There are currently no known solutions to these problems...
FUTURISTIC MATERIALS A diamond's extraordinary clarity and strength make it an ideal building material, but also terribly hard to work with. Nanobots, however, could make diamonds in any shape at all--a sheet a few millimeters thick, say, to make a scratchproof window. And because the basic feedstock is ordinary carbon, these diamonds are as cheap as glass...