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...beliefs, they might just decide to stay at home one day," says Michael Mathews, vice president of the international sales and marketing division for Hong Kong's glittering Regent Hotel. In the Regent's case, the feng shui master recommended that the hotel set up a panoramic picture window facing Hong Kong Harbor to allow the nine dragons who live nearby to have access to their favorite bathing spot on the bay. Dragons, it seems, do not know how to use doors but can easily pass through glass. Says the hotel's public relations chief, Lynn Grebstadt: "No one wants...
...final answers will not be in until the current crop of day-care kids grows up. The next generation of research will ask more refined questions, & delving into the reasons why many young children do well in substitute care while others suffer. Says Belsky: "We've identified a window of vulnerability. Now we have to figure out what conditions open it and which shut...
...cooperate in funding and launching this enterprise because all other attempts to detect intelligent life elsewhere in the universe have failed. The old-fangled, late 20th century notion of scanning the skies for meaningful radio signals yielded nothing but static and was folly besides. The new theory favors the "window of contact," the relatively brief span during which any civilization achieves industrial know-how and then either destroys itself or lapses into self-absorbed silence. As a physicist aboard the Eurydice explains, "Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce...
...extra to complete out-of-town business. Even a Saturday trip to the dry cleaner's has been known to take two hours or more. In spring, Nature Writer Lola Oberman carries binoculars around her Maryland house all day, just in case a good bird appears at a window. And bumper stickers saying I BRAKE FOR BIRDS had better be taken seriously: on the highway, birders have been known to lose control when a good bird flies over. Pete Bacinski, one of New Jersey's best-known birders, totaled his Chevy Nova when he took his eyes off the road...
...form. Because the human brain is exquisitely adept at picking up visual cues, scientists have begun benefiting from what Robert Langridge of the University of California at San Francisco calls "computer-aided insights." Says Langridge, who uses 3-D graphics to model biological molecules: "Computer graphics gives us a window into what is going on, rather than just a scientific result. It has become an experimental tool...