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...Father's Day--to a good, though never ostentatious, New York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...
...crammed onto a silicon wafer the size of a fingernail. They do this by etching microscopic grooves onto crystalline silicon with beams of ultraviolet radiation. A typical wire in a Pentium chip is now 1/500 the width of a human hair; the insulating layer is only 25 atoms thick...
...with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
...around George W. Bush these days is thick with ghosts. At the family getaway in Kennebunkport to attend a surprise birthday fete for mom Barbara and work on his convention speech with some advisers, Bush found himself standing at the front door and telling reporters - one more time - that those 131 people deserved to die. The Texas criminal justice system in which Bush is the last link "adequately answered innocence or guilt" in the death row cases on his watch, Bush insisted again Sunday. But the reporters are digging, and the corpses they find are telling a different tale...
...When the thick envelope arrived at his home in early April, Villarreal says his mother was crying...