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EDITOR IN CHIEF & DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE PRESIDENT&C.O.O.: KATHY KEETOIM VP/EDITOR: KEITH FERRELL EXEC io MANAGING EDITOR CARCI 'ME DARK ART DIRECTOR: CATHRYN MEZZO 6 First Word Continui By David Copperfield 42 8 Let the Project Begin Communications By Pamela Weintraub 10 Project Open Book, Forum Omni's ongoing effort to By Keith Ferreli investigate UFO 12 data from around the world, Stars is underway. By Steve Nadis This month we reveal the 14 first responses Animals and the experts who'll By Jane Bosveid evaluate them. 16 52 Sounds Being There By Sieve Nadis By Erin Murphy 18 Wings of Courage, the Wheels first I MAX By Denny Atkin 3-D feature film, presented 20 enormous Mind challenges for both By Lorrin Harvey 22 director Jean- Jacques Annaud and Arts the crew. By Denise Meola 62 24 Fiction: Travel Isobel Avens By Anthony Liversidge 26 Returns to Stepney in the Spring Electronic Universe By M. John Harrison By Gregg Keizer 77 28 Interview: Waves Brian Michael Jenkins By Janei Stites 30 By Paul Bagne Thwarting terrorism Artificial Intelligence Omni's call for verifiable evidence of UFOs 85 By CalGb John Clark has generated a flood of letters to assist us as we 32 focus Antimatter an objective eye on an elusive subject. Project 112 Learning Open Book is now officially open. Cover art by Scott Morgan. Games By Lisa G. Casirtger (Additional art and photo credits, page 97) By Scot Morris

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A DELICATE SLEIGHT OF HAND:. Magic and the history of illusion

By David Copperfield

n thai Neanderthal day, the theater's glory. But no matter part unsung outside ihe confines when cold rain ruined the stage and no matter the trick, of the brotherhood, have devoted the hunt and kept the from the vanishing pebble to the their lives to creating new illu- clan inside the shelter of the disappearing Statue of Liberty, sions, to perfecting' an arcane cave, who was that man who first magicians through the ages have sleight with the pasieboards, to picked up a pebble and, through instilled in wide-eyed children and developing a minute refinement on shaggy sleight of hand, made it even their jaded elders—genera- an existing piece of conjuring. disappear to the grunts and tions who saw men walk on the Gifted with intelligence, curiosity, squeals of an otherwise wearied moon and dinosaurs run across and imagination, one can only 7 audience And perhaps, a week cinema screens— an almost lost- wonder how the world might have later, he discovered childhood sense of changed had these conjurers cho- For David the joy of making the discovery. sen the fields of science or medi- Copperfield, pebble reappear by Whether it was a cine in which to pour their genius.

magic it Is snatching out of a Dunninger reading And all of them, from Uncle than just mere neighbor's ear. We minds or a Geller Charley to the stage illusionist, the art of owe that man a debt, bending spoons, a share a common trait—they keep Illusion; it is a for he was the first Chung Ling Soo their secrets, hoarding them with way to magician, the first to catching bullets be- the fervor of a miser, not because celebrate awe, create wonder both tween his teeth, a they represent wealth or personal myslery, intimate and real. Kellar or Thurston lev- prestige, but because divulging and wonder. He was the father itating a woman, or a them to the uninitiated breaks the of the oldest of all Dante sawing a lady spell, ruins the fun, and tells the the performing arts, in half, the magicians' child inside us all not to dream.

' practiced in an un- feats have been lim- With mysteries intact, the broken succession from the priests ited only by one criterion: The ex- magic lives on. But even conjurers of the apemen to the Hindu ploit must be impossible. share one conundrum—the curi- Jadoo-Wallahs, from the Algerian And of all the performers on ous fact that of all the performing marabouts to the Indian shamans, stage, no one courts disaster no arts, magic is the only one that is and from Houdini to Uncle Charley one flirts with failure as' much as male-dominated. Women, for the with his card tricks. Magic has the magician. The juggler may most part, have been on the re- captured the passion of curious drop a bowling pin, the singer may ceiving end of the indignities: They minds everywhere, from Charles forget a lyric, the actor may fluff have been sawed in half and had Dickens to Orson Welles, from a line, and all will be forgiven; but skewers thrust through their bod- Muhammad Ali and Norman no magician is allowed to miss a ies. Is it because most magicians Schwarzkopf to Princes Philip trick and escape that moment enter the field at a young age, Charles, and from Dick Cavett when applause turns to derision. when little boys like to show off to and Johnny Carson to Dick- John Some have missed a trick, of little girls? Or is it a mystery that son Carr, course. Sometimes. Uncle Charley even magic cannot explain? Magic caters to a spirit of rev- can't find the selected card, and Or as Albert Einstein once erence and mystery, and it is the one unlucky night, Chung Ling wrote, "The fairest thing we can magician, above all other theatri- failed Soo to stop the bullet. experience is the mysterious. It is cal and performing artists, who But the art pressed on. Today, the fundamental emotion which must carry the torch of wonder. an estimated 30,000 Americans stands at the cradle of true art His art speaks to a primordial have embraced magic as a hobby. and true science. He who knows emotion inside us all. There have been more books it not and can no longer feel fictional A Merlin took magic written on card magic alone than amazement is as good as dead, from the cave to the court; a very on any other performing art. a snuffed-out candle.'DQ real Austrian, Johann Nepomuk Magic has invaded Broadway, Hofzinser, took it from the street, network television, the perform- David Copperfield has established playground of the mountebank, ing arts center, the rock concert, the International Museum and Li- to the drawing of " rooms Viennese and the urban sidewalk. It is the brary of the Conjuring Arts, which aristocracy; and Jean Robert Golden Age of Conjuring. houses one of the world's fore- Houdin, a French conjurer brought Some of the finest minds to most collections of historical doc- it from the fairground's bustle to have ever existed, for the most : .-'T'.eniation and artifacts. mm CDnnnnuruicATiofus READERS' WRITES:

The face that should launch a ship, storytelling at its best, and NASA goes off Broadway

About Face Every piece of fiction you print sur-

I think your article [Mars Face, August passes the last. "Why Did?" [April

1994] was especially courageous. I'm 1994] is brilliant. It's of the quality one

sure you knew you would incur displea- expects to find in a contemporary liter-

sure from important people. I suspect ature magazine. There is no better your article is the first word that a ma- place than Omni to turn in search of jority of your readers have heard on al- fresh science fiction, fantasy, psycho- leged alien artifacts in the solar logical, political, and futuristic topics; system, a topic which has been the all well-researched, intriguingly pre- focus of furious America Online de- sented, and endlessly fascinating. bates. Thanks for allowing your readers Eva Marie Auker a chance to judge for themselves. Lititz, PA Lan Fleming Houston, TX Curtain Call for NASA?

AOL: Compewter I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Cypher [First Word, July 1994] that another re-

The most important issue regarding make of "War of the Worlds" is not what the Mars "face" is that NASA et al. will bring the audience back to the the- refuse to deal with and debate the idea ater. Our new script should be one which on a scientific basis. It is the business of appeals to the largest demographic science to gather data, form hypothe- possible —the entire "home planet." ses, and test them, rather than to ac- NASA's recent reviews have been lack- cept or reject beliefs. Michael Malin's luster, at best. Whatever direction it

explanation that there would have to chooses for is forced) to take, it had.

be visible signs of ". . . roads or large better act fast. Or else it will have to ." areas that have been excavated . . bring down the curtain after a disap- to prove to him that something intelli- pointing last act. gent designed and built the structures Cathy Anderson on Mars leaves me with this question: Houston, TX Couid it be possible that other life forms may not build nor transport themselves The Nature of the Beast as Mr. Malin would like? Does this mean Again we are led to think that chim- that we have to show a picture of a 1920 panzees are better than humans Chevy or a steam shovel to prove to Mr. [Beauty and the Beast, August 1994] Malin that someone was actually there because "chimps never put a human in at some point in time? a cage and humans are the ones with Robert Loveridge bullets." Chimps don't need the bullets. North Hollywood, CA They'll beat their enemy dead with a stick and eat his brains for dessert.

Amazing Stories They'll run off another male and kill his Thank you for a fascinating and insight- progeny so the female may focus on ful interview with Story Musgrave [Au- raising the new male's offspring, Does gust 1994]. This is a wonderful glimpse such demeanor demonstrate a supe- into the mind of a man who has not lost rior intelligence to humans?

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DR. DAMASIO'S ACHIEVEMENT: . A. new book distills a lifetime of research and insight

By Keith Ferrell

Breat scientific achieve- conversation with an imaginary ment is often accompa- friend. Not a dialogue, and ab- nied by great literary solutely not a lecture, but a con- ambiiion. Almost as often, unfor- versation, As with any conver- tunately, that literary ambition ex- sation, there are eddies and ceeds accomplishment. flows, strong central currents Occasionally, though, a great and sidestreams. As with great scientist writes a book that works conversation, the central current as literature as well as autobiog- is always there, guiding the rest. raphy or reporting. I'd like to tell What is that central current? you about such a book, It's just What Is Descartes' error? Quite the relationship if been published, and I were simply, the error is the separation between you I'd get hold of a copy imme- of mind from body, of emotion thinking and It's diately. thatgood. from reason. Je pense done je feeling? The book is called Descartes' Descartes wrote in 1637. Is the mind Error; Emotion, Reason, and the Seven years later he offered as separate Human Brain (Grosset/Putnam, Latinate reiteration: Cogito ergo from the body $24.95). Its author is Antonio R. sum. I think therefore I am. As or an Inevi- Damasio, one of the key neuro- Damasio points out, the insight is table part 0/it? logical of scientists our time. In literally true. But it's also literally

Descartes' Error, Dr. Damasio false, first in separating thinking sets out to explore the nature of faced with great challenge and and being, and second In the our minds, and to distill his in- obstacle, but convinced that causative relation Descartes sights, research, and theories right will ultimately triumph. sought to build. We are thinking into a written volume for the seri- In Damasio's case, right be-ings, is more accurate. Feel- ous student of human nature. means scientific inquiry and in- ing and thinking are part of our This is serious popular a book in vestigation. It does not mean, as being, is more accurate still. the best sense of both of those it does with some scientists, his Damasio begins his journey words. It is accessible, graceful, particular point of view or the with a re-telling of a familiar and provocative. precepts from which he works. story: the fate of poor Phineas Damasio's approach to his Certainly he holds those closely, Gage, whose personality was material is one that succeeds on and is committed to them, to his radically altered as the result of a nearly every count, offering us a research and findings. neurological He be- injury. I do not think window into not only the work- lieves that he has arrived at cer- the story has ever been told bet- ings of a scientific mind of the tain truths, is and that what hB ter, nor can I imagine anyone first order, but also into the his- shares with us in his book. But reading Damasio's account tory of the science to which throughout the book he also pre- being able to stop reading any- Damasio's life has been devoted. sents, fairly and respectfully, op- time soon thereafter. His narra- Devotion is a strong word, but posing points of view and tive drive, his clarity of expres- an appropriate one. Damasio's avenues of research. He may sion, and his complete com- story has the elements of a disagree with these, and is elo- mand of his material all see to quest, a lifelong adventure in quent in his counterpoint, but he that. Damasio has won scientific pursuit of answers to questions is never dismissive or contemp- prizes: I will be surprised if he that are in some way or another tuous. That's unique enough in does not, now, win literary ones. ultimate: What are the roots of scientific literature to be com- I hope to meet with Dr. Dama- consciousness? What is the fun- mendable for its own sake. sio in the near future and talk dament of reason? And most That open-mindedness and about the research he and his central to his work, what is the sense of the ongoing scientific equally talented wife, Hanna, are relationship of the mind and the dialogue is more than natural in undertaking. When I do, I'll tell body? can far in One go too ex- the context of the book's struc- you about it in these pages. tending a metaphor—although ture. One does not expect a sci- Until then, get a copy of Damasio does not, not once, in entist to be a shrewd literary Descartes' Error. You will not, I this book but there is a sense tactician, but — is. feel I Damasio and think, regret it one sin- to him of a knight on, a quest, Descartes' Error is written as a gle bit.Dd A STAR IS BORN: A new satellite will shed light on one of the universe's deepest secrets By Steve Nadis

Cosmologists can de- heats up, which makes it want to antenna at a target cloud for a scribe the birth of the uni- expand. Yet a star cannot possi- day or two to pick up any signals verse in astonishing de- bly form unless this expansive at these frequencies. tail, starting just a tiny fraction of tendency is held in check. The Although the experiment will

a second after the Big Bang, Their gas must find some means of provide valuable information, it's theories attempt to explain the cooling itself before the collapse— clearly limited in scope. SWAS genesis of galaxies and larger and the star's birth —can pro- can't tell us anything, for instance, structures spanning hundreds of ceed. "The way we think nature about how gas clouds form with- millions of light-years. Yet the solves the problem is through in galaxies or what triggers their birth of individual stars remains collisions within the clouds, collapse into stars. Such limita- almost a complete mystery. which result in the excitation of tions are inevitable with any The Submillimeter Wave As- molecules and atoms to higher "Small Explorer"-class mission. tronomy Satellite (SVVAS) should energy levels," Melnick says. To meet requirements for low help decipher that mystery. If a collision knocks an atom cost (on the order of $30 million Scheduled for launch in mid hard enough, its electron will to $.40 million) and low weight part 1995 as of NASA's Small Ex- make it to the next energy level. (about 600 pounds), the space- plorer Program, SWAS will spend The electron stays at this ele- craft simply can't carry tons of two or more years observing How do stars thousands of clouds in the Milky form? Way and other nearby galax- Astronomers ies—sites considered spawning think they grounds for stars and planetary know, and the systems. The mission will afford Submillimeter the first detailed look by a space- Wave Astronomy craft at the submillimeter sky, the Satellite will portion of the electromagnetic either Gontlrm or spectrum lying between radio disprove and infrared bands. This spectral their theory. region represents "one of astron- omy's last frontiers," according to physicist Giovanni Fazio of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), a co-investi- gator on the project. Scientists here on Earth trying to make submillimeter observa- tions run up against our atmos- vated perch for a short while and exotic equipment. phere, which absorbs much of then "decays" to the ground Within a month or so after the incoming radiation at these state, emitting a light particle, or SWAS is launched, astronomers wavelengths. "It's like looking photon. That's how the gas rids should find out whether they've through a picket fence," explains itself of energy—by giving off guessed right—or wrong—about the CFA's Gary Melnick, Astron- this radiation. the cooling mechanism used in omers can obtain unobstructed Melnick and his colleagues gas clouds. If SWAS fails to de- views only from space, above have tuned SWAS to detect pho- tect any radiation at those five the atmosphere's thick veil. tons resulting from electron tran- spectral lines, it would indicate

' And that's where SWAS wilt sitions in five chemical "species" that current models describing go, peering into the giant clouds believed to be involved in cloud the chemistry of gas clouds are of gas and dust whence stars cooling; water, molecular oxy- totally off base. "One assumes emerge. The mission designers gen, molecular carbon, isotopic that all the theorists could not hope to shed light on a long- carbon monoxide, and isotopic have blown it so badly," says as- standing paradox: As these water. Each of these transitions tronomer John Stauffer, another clouds collapse under the pull of occurs at a characteristic fre- member of the SWAS team. "But gravity (the beginning of the star- quency within the submillimeter we won't know for sure until we formation process), the gas band. SWAS will simply aim its go out there and look. "00 —

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WHEN THE TABLES ARE TURNED: Look who is the killing machine now

By Jane Bosveld

^% hen it comes to sym- have been alarmed for years other shark experts face is get- I I pathy for endangered over the effects such exploita- ting the public to care about the %J %S species, the shark is tions have on shark populations. fate of creatures they love to

at the bottom of the list. This They warn of the possible effect hate, or as Gruber puts it, to care poster child for terror rarely in- depleted shark populations may about "the death fish from hell."

spires goodwill. Yet many of the have on ocean life. Decrease the He and scientists have gotten 400 known species of sharks are number of sharks, whose feed- the word out to the U.S. govern-

now endangered, including the ing habits help to keep popula- ment, but legislation is slow in infamous great white, the ham- tions of other fish in check, and coming, primarily because merhead, the tiger and the lemon you offset the balance of aquatic there's not enough pressure from shark. It isn't hard to guess the life. "Sharks help control disease the public. The way to get public greatest threat to these ancient in fish populations," explains support, Gruber is convinced, is predators that should be able to shark expert Samuel G ruber of through education. Once people take care of themselves. The an- the University of Miami. "They understand the valuable role swer, of course, is us. play an important role in the evo- sharks*blay in ocean ecology, he Human beings slaughter mil- lution of prey species, taking the believes, they will realize how im-

portant it is to preserve shark Outside ol populations. Moreover, learning Saddam Hussein about sharks will put their das- and Hitler, tardly deeds in perspective. sharks probably "More deaths occur each year have Die from elephant attacks, bee worst image prob- stings, crocodiles, and lightning lem around- than from shark attacks," Gruber one that is explains. "And that's not to men- rapidly endanger- tion car accidents." ing many But will education be enough? ot the over 400 Perhaps what sharks need is extant species. their own Born Free, an Elsa the Lioness in shark skin. The popu- larity of Elsa, the pet lioness turned back to the wild, helped to transform the image of lions. No longer could people think of lions as simple ferocious beasts without feeling or memory. The post-Bom Free view was of intel- lions of sharks each year. Fishing sick and unhealthy fish, leaving ligent creatures possessed with

boats net thousands of them by the more fit to breed," at least a few humanlike quali- accident and, rather ihan release Gruber compares the fate of ties. Gruber believes the same them, the crews kill them first, sharkless oceans to that of the can be done for sharks. He then toss their bodies back to Great Plains after two of its top hopes that his collaboration on a

. the sea to rot. Equally devastat- predators—wolves and mountain BBC documentary about the pla- ing to shark populations is lions—were virtually extermi- cental births of one family of "finning," a practice in which nated earlier this century. "The sharks may help. sharks are caught, their fins cut plains stopped being a place Sympathetic or not, sharks, off, and their dying bodies thrown where the deer and the antelope like all the earth's living crea- back into the sea. The fins are played," Gruber explains, "and tures, are anything but dispens- then dried and sold for use in became a place where the deer able. As conservationists and shark-fin soup and tonics. And to and the antelope became sick animal-rights advocates work to make matters even worse, there and overgrazed and destroyed change ihe prejudicial nature of is the sheer vanity of sport fish- their own habitai. The same thing the human mind, other animals ing which adds to the massacre. can happen in the sea." perhaps even the sharks—are Scientists who study sharks The difficult task Gruber and sure to benefit. DQ SOUfUDS

THE QUIET CRISIS:

How far would you go for i little peace and quiet?

By Steve Nadis

n April 1, 1994, Gordon sic of running water," the "grand gress authorized a study of the Hempton set out on anthem" of the land. And he impact of aircraft overflights—by foot from San Francisco wanted to get it ail down on tape. far the biggest contributor to to Yosemite National Park. You see, Hempton is the noise pollution. Published in July Hempton completed the 255- "Sound Tracker." From his base in 1992, the Forest Service report mile hike in two weeks, retracing Port Angeles, Washington, he concluded, "aircraft noise intru- the steps of the naturalist, John travels the world with state-of- sions did not appreciably impair Muir, who embarked on a similar the-art digital recording equip- surveyed wilderness users' over- journey on April 1, 1868. Muir, ment, trying to record "wilderness all enjoyment." A Park Service of- founder of the Sierra Club, played soundscapes." Though he's one ficial privately called the report a a key role in establishing the Na- of the best in the business, his "whitewash," promising that tional Park System. He also helped job is becoming increasingly diffi- "we're not going to sweep this Yosemite—arguably his favorite cult as human-generated noise— issue under the rug." Govern- spot on Earth—earn its place as from planes, trains, buzz saws, ment auction may be slow in com- Ail, beauty a national park, Muir was an as- and automobiles—drowns out ing, however, since the Park far as as the eye tute observer of nature with a the fleeting sounds of nature. In Service won't even release its can see- particularly keen ear, and his most of Nofth America, by findings until the end of 1994. nut what about writings on wilderness sounds Hempton's reckoning, it's hard to In the meantime, Gordon the ears? make up what Hempton calls find a noise-free interval exceed- Hempton has already submitted Ambient noise is "some of our earliest sound re- ing three to four minutes. "When his proposal, "One Square Inch (he rise on cordings." That was, in fact, the you think you have a noise-free for Peace and Quiet." The idea is and is muffling motivation behind Hempton's interval, you probably have a quite simple: In every National trek—to immerse himself in Muir's noise-induced hearing loss," he Park and Wilderness Area, one soundscape. world. He wanted to hear "the mu- says. But even if you manage to square inch of land should be steal a quiet moment here and designated a "National Historic there, you probably won't have Soundmark" that remains free of time to fully appreciate the "music noise at all times. Achieving of the earth." Three to four min- "zero noise tolerance" within that utes is the length of a pop tune, square inch would affect (and re- Hempton points out. "But nature strict) activities in the air and on is not a pop tune. It's symphonic." the land within a 40-mile radius. Paul Matzner, chairman of the The issues become compli- Nature Sounds Society, based at cated, of course, when one tries the Oakland Museum, agrees to weigh the interests of aircraft that there is indeed a "quiet cri- operators, sightseers, and park sis. Quiet places, where the concessionaires against those sounds of nature can be heard seeking the pure backcountry

uninterrupted by the sounds of experience. However, if we fail to human beings or their technol- curb the rising tide of back- ogy, are some of our most en- ground noise, our so-called dangered habitats." The problem wilderness areas will continue to affects not only humans and their lose their appeal. Yosemite, quest for peace and quiet, but which hosts some four million wildlife, too. According to Dave visitors a year, is a case in point. Cornman, a biologist with the so- With gas stations, parking lots, ciety, human-induced noise pol- banks, ATMs, post offices, and lution can cause hearing loss in overnight mail drop boxes, "the animals and otherwise drown out [and is starting to look more like their communications. Elevated a theme park than a preserve of

stress levels in animals have also nature," Hempton says. "If John been reported. Muir were around today, Yose- The U.S. government has not mite wouldn't have become a na- been oblivious to the degrada- tional park. He would have just tion of the soundscape Con- walked on by."DQ IAJHEEL5

REINVENTING THE WHEEL: The bicycle jumps 100 years into the present

By Denny Atkin

This is not your father's fortable ride is more important. rev.X sell for $2,000 to $3,000, In Schwinn. 1870, Eng- The rev.X is touted by Spin- Kutrumbos doesn't think it will be lish machinists James ergy as a "no-compromise" solu- long before economies of scale, Kemp Starley and William Hill- tion for cyclists. Constructed of a automation, and new designs will man patented the bicycle as we carbon fiber and Kevlar compos- allow Spinergy'to offer similar know it. After more than a cen- ite, the rev.X spokes are twice as wheels on $400 bicycles. tury of only small, incremental strong as 32 heavy-duty steel A more dramatic advance will improvements to the basic chain- spokes, but the wheel weighs in come in 1995 when Spinergy re- driven, wire-spoked, tension- at less than 720 grams. The four leases its belt-driven system to wheel design, Connecticut-based pre-stressed sets of opposing replace the traditional chain-dri- Spinergy is poised to redefine carbon fiber and Kevlar spokes ven transmission, which Kutrum- the bicycle, join at the hub to form a resilient bos says hasn't changed in 50 Spinergy's first product is the triangular configuration. This years.- "It's more of an advance rev.X, a high-technoiogy wheel patented design, called Tri-Ten- than the wheel," he claims. The that's fast becoming a favorite of sion Technology, lets Spinergy transmission system requires only competition bicycle riders. The create a wheel that has the shock- two ounces of effort to change sleek, black wheel with only four absorbing qualities of a tradi- gears. The light touch means pairs of inline spokes conveys a tional wire-spoked wheel without gear changes can now be ac- feeling of speed even at rest. the "eggbeater" drag penalty. complished using buttons, a Until the rev.X hit the market, With a price of about $500 knob, a motorcycle-style grip competition cyclists were faced per wheel, the rev.X w\\t appeal shift, or, most interestingly, elec- with two wheel choices, each of primarily to competition cyclists tronics.' Using an electronic con- which forced a compromise. and serious biking enthusiasts. trol, a cyclist could set the bicycle Wire-spoked wheels offer a com- Although bikes from companies to automatically shift ratios to fortable ride because they are such as Cannondale and Trek maintain a certain speed, pedal- tensioned, allowing the spokes that come equipped with the ing cadence, or heart rate. Such to absorb some road shock. "A a system could interface with a TheraUK wheel's traditional spoked wheel has a home computer as part of a so- advanced problem aerodynamically," ex- phisticated training program. composite con- plains Spinergy's Ted Kutrum- Current chain/deraiileur trans- struction bos. "It's like an eggbeater—the mission systems have unevenly and aerodynamic spokes create turbulence, or spaced ratios that make for jar- design work what's called dirty air." ring shifts between some gears. together to give Developments in the area of Spinergy's transmission will offer cyclists a composites have allowed manu- 17 evenly stepped gear ratios, comfortable, low- facturers to create wheels made "It's very smooth because the drag ride. from carbon fiber. The high pulley sections move within a strength and light weight of this disc, up and down, so you're not material means wheels can be jumping a chain sideways from made as a solid disc, or with sprocket to sprocket," Kutrum- only a few, airfoil-shaped spokes, bos says. Best of all, the belt-dri- "These designs cut through the ven system is completely en- air" explains Kutrumbos, "but the closed and uses no lubrication, road shock goes right through making it maintenance-free. you because the wheel is in com- Like the rev.X wheel, the trans- pression, or solid." Because of mission will initially appear on these compromises, competitive higher priced racing and enthu- riders are often forced to change siast bicycles. Eventually bicy- wheels during stage races. They cles equipped with both tech- use carbon-fiber wheels for short nologies will drop into consumer sprints where every bit ot speed price ranges, carrying one of the is important, then switch to tradi- world's most popular modes of tional wire-spoked wheels for transportation firmly into the longer distances where a com- twenty-first century. DO nnino

MENTAL TELEPATHY IN THE LAB: Tests show psychic abilities among actors and musicians

By Lorrin Harvey

^k ^% arcella, a 20-year-old and other distractions from the the correct target 25 percent of I I Juilliard student lying senses. During a ganzfeld ses- the time. Overall, subjects scored I %m I in a darkened room, sion, a receiver lies on a reclin- correct hits 33 percent of the can hear nothing but the sound ing chair in a soundproof room time, and 37 percent when film of static as she describes with translucent Ping-Pong ball clips were used. Most strikingly, scenes she imagines to a man in halves taped over his eyes while 20 students from Juilliard scored a lab coat. "A tunnel of smog or white noise plays over a headset. hits 50 percent of the time, some smoke; the color red. Ah, sud- In a separate room a sender of the highest scores reported.

denly the sun . . . a cartoon sun concentrates on a particular Six out of eight music stu- with pointy spikes ... a lizard image selected by a computer dents judged targets success-

with a big head." In another room as the target. Each session lasts fully, although their reported im- a sender concentrates on a scene about 30 minutes, while the re- agery was not as detailed as the from the film, Altered States, de- ceiver tells the experimenter drama students'. Four out of ten picting a psychedelic experience what he is imagining or feeling. drama students correctly identi- in which everything is fied their target, describ- Parapsychologists tinted red; there are people ing the imagery so vividly believe there in agony in the midst of fire anyone could choose the is a link between and smoke; and there is a correct target. artistic ability large sun with a corona. At Honorton and his col- and telepathy. Are the end of the clip, a lizard league Marilyn Schlitz con- artists less head appears. In an exper- sidered various reasons likely Id suppress iment investigating ESP, for the results. Most musi- and more Marcella's description cians make better judges, likely la report demonstrates how accu- they thought, because mu- unusual imagery? rately some people can re- sicians are generally more ceive psychic imagery. methodical and attentive In January 1994, the to details than drama stu- Psychological Bulletin pub- dents, who concentrate on lished a review of mental verbal skills and are more telepathy research span- comfortable revealing per- ning 20 years. The research sonal things. The Juilliard not only shows significant students, about 17 years proof that telepathy exists, younger than the other but also reveals surprising participants, were more connections between artists skeptical of ESP. and psychic abilities. Daryl The studies are "not so J. Bern, professor of psy- impressive when one con- chology at Cornell Univer- siders only twenty students sity, co-authored the article were involved," rebuts Ray with the late University of Hyman, professor of psy- Edinburgh parapsychologist Afterward, the receiver chooses chology at the University of Ore- Charles Honorton. Honorton, the best image out of four that gon. Bern agrees, but adds, who died in November 1992, most closely matches his experi- "When the students were being conducted most of the experi- ence during the session. Until tested, there was an enormous ments. "Taken with earlier stud- the computer records the re- amount of enthusiasm." An ex- ies, the probability that the results ceiver's choice, only the sender perimenter who believes in telep- could have occurred by chance knows the image chosen. athy may positively influence the is less than one in a billion," says The ganzfeld studies, con- attitude of the subjects. Parapsy- Bern, who was deeply impressed ducted at Honorton's Psycho- chologists also find that people with Honorton's safeguards physical Research Lab in Prince- who meditate, or practice skills against flaws and cheating. ton, Mew Jersey, consisted of 11 requiring mental focus, achieve

The studies used the ganzfeld experiments, with 240 receivers positive results. At Cornell, Bern is (German for total field) tech- tested in 354 sessions. By now investigating meditators' nique that works to block noise chance, a receiver would choose telepathic capabilities.Dd ARTS

ODE FOR A SOUNDLESS UNIVERSE: Uncovering the celebrated music of the spheres By Denise Meola

The future belongs to them into a series of numbers for keyboard during live perfor- those who can hear it storage in a mainframe com- mance. Combining this with sci- coming. Our environ- puter. The irequency of galactic entific lectures, laser effects, and ment surrounds us with sound. radiation is high—about 1 billion music, Terenzi simultaneously We are able to recognize a tele- hertz—and must be mathemati- entertains and educates her au- phone ringing, a motorcycle, cally reduced into something we dience in planetariums, raves, the music of Beethoven, birds can recognize as sound. A com- and concert halls in Europe, singing, or a jet flying overhead. puter sound synthesis program, Japan, and the United States,

Radio telescopes are in place on Cmusic, was used to bring it with- In the interactive realm, Earth like enormous ears collect- in the sphere of human hearing. Terenzi has created a CD-ROM ing electromag- _ Terenzi spent for the Voyager Company titled Are the planets netic vibrations one year translat- "The Invisible Universe" to be re- emitting from the ing signals from leased in 1994-1995, designed acf ass itie void la cosmos. UGC 6697, proc- as an educational tool for kids of each ottier? Astrophysicist essing thousands all agss. Blending music, poetry, Fiorella Terenzl and experimental of combinations and history with images of the in- listens in on musician Dr. Fio- of cosmic sounds, visible universe in x-ray, gamma a reticent universe. rella Terenzi has and choosing the ray, infrared, and ultraviolet light, now transformed most violent, ac- Terenzi demonstrates that our vi- these radio waves tive emissions sion is a limited instrument. She into sound, allow- from this galaxy is also discussing a 12-part high- ing a once reti- to listen in on. tech public television extrava- cent universe to With her back- ganza for 1994 and 1995 where be heard. ground in music she'll teach astronomy, engineer- Terenzi holds a composition and ing, mathematics, and physics doctorate in phys- theory, opera, and in a cybernetic environment. ics from the Uni- piano, Terenzi lis- Terenzi, who developed the se- versity of Milan. tened to the com- ries, will interact with her audi- with a specialization in astro- plex galactic pulse with a ence via computer, fax, and physics. While doing her doc- musician's ear. "There is an in- telephone, and will be trans- toral research at the Computer tensity and frequency in galactic formed into a virtual scientist Audio Research Laboratory at radiation which is similar to that within a virtual world, "a Bar- the University of California in San of musical notes," explains barellalike character" admits the

Diego, the idea of "listening to Terenzi. "It is a cosmic harmony sultry scientist. the sky" came to her. "I thought which seems to be attuned to B- What do the stars hold in there must be a way to connect flat and D-minor." Fiorella Terenzi's future? To con- the two universes of radio waves Her experiments resulted in tinue her research with Acoustic and sound," says Terenzi. By her 1991 debut recording "Music Astronomy as an alternative way

combining radio astronomy and from the Galaxies" (Island to classify celestial objects. "I computer-music technology, Records) containing the unal- would like to experiment with Terenzi began a series of experi- tered sound of galaxy UGC beats generated by a frequency ments exploring the possibility of 6697. The circular galactic collision that occurs when two the use of sound for astronomi- sound is ethereal and sensual, stars orbit around one another in cal investigation—a technique transporting the listener into a what is called a binary star sys-

she calls "Acoustic Astronomy." hypnotic state. Her next record- tem," Terenzi says. If these Choosing for her celestial ex- ing, expected late this year, will sounds can be identified on the periment UGC 6697, a galaxy feature the sounds of UGC 6697 acoustic representation of their 180 million light-years from Earth and the rings of Saturn, cosmic data, eventually every star could (just under the handle of the Big drumming of pulsars, and her be recognized by its individual

Dipper), Terenzi turned to the lyric soprano voice singing in sound. "The universe is sending Very Large Array radio tele- harmony with the universe. out a message every second," scopes in Socorro, New Mexico, By digitally sampling the uni- Terenzi adds, "and all the mes-

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CYBER-SLEDDING: Riding the Internet to the Arctic

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g^k s Will Steger tells it, trou- Edited, this was fed into the In- vlld- M^^Lble arrives quickly in ternet by the Center for Excel- m mthe Arctic. "One night lence in Education at Indiana But the key threat is trans- a 100-mile-per-hour storm blew University. Questions were re- boundary pollution —contami- up. We were sleeping in a tent layed back to the team, As Ste- nants brought to the Arctic by tfed to my canoe sled. All of a ger's exploration party traveled wind and water currents from

sudden, I saw a shadow. The up from Yeilowknife to the polar thousands of miles away. The canoe came down right on my ice and then back to Canada polar sea ice, only 12 feet thick, head, and the tent just ex- over a period of two and one-half floats on a huge rapidly moving

ploded— pooi! I grabbed onto it, months, they shared hundreds of current circling around what holding it down. Loose socks pages of stories and expert com- amounts to a 15,000-foot-deep and underwear were sucked out, mentary with the schools. cereal bowl. The ice is so mobile the pressure was so great. Even- Topics discussed included that a yellow canister Steger left tually we pushed it down and how to run a dog team, preserv- at the pole in 1986 was found by collected our stuff." ing the Inuit culture, an Arctic a carperiter on the north shore of The harrowing Arctic escape gold mine, and the Northern Ireland three years later, The was "all part of our learning ex- Lights —the eery yellow-green churning flow of water and air im- perience," says Steger. A wiry curtains which hang in the winter ports pollutants including pesti- and weather beaten 49. Steger is night sky. The children learned cides and heavy metals.

an explorer and teacher. that the mystical "I a The phenomenon is Says Steger, feel I have to Minnesotan yearns to wake up caused by streams of electrons do something, and the most ef- the world to rising threats to the from the sun. fective way is to connect the ed- Arctic environment, and he has The single-season Arctic tra- ucational system, for the children

found a unique way to do it. In versal will begin March 7, 1995 are the ones whose world this the International Arctic Project, from an island on the Arctic will be tomorrow." Steger is linking cyberspace with coast of Russia. Steger and his Schools and individuals can the risks and concerns of polar team will dogsied to reach the plug in to the expedition by adventure virtually in reai time, North Pole on ApriJ 22, the sending their Internet E-mail ad- Steger led the first confirmed twenty-fifth anniversary of Earth dress to World School for Adven-

North Pole dogsied expedition Day, and then head south. If the ture Learning's mailbox, worid- without resupply in 1986, and he ice becomes too treacherous [email protected], along with

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By Gregg Keizer

The real reason to go are unmoderated, and are any- deep on ait.paranet.ufo, though, electronic is to have fun, thing-goes, electronic free-for- for one correspondent swore he especially on the Inter- alls.) Though you may have al- saw a face of clustered stars in a net. There's enough information ready heard some of the gags Hubble image he downloaded on this global tangle of comput- posted here, the majority rate from the net.

ers to sate the biggest data somewhere between a giggle An even better newsgroup is thirst, but there's also an Incredi- and a scream. Other newsgroups alt.alien.visitors, which includes a ble number of grins on the Inter- are unwittingly funny. People, healthy dose of skepticism. The net. And some of those laughs after all, say the wackiest things. topics are wider-ranging than feel right at home in Omni. One recent message on alt.para- alt.paranet.ufo, too—from time There are games on the Inter- net. abduct, a newsgroup on travel and aliens posing as U.S. net, but you'll have more fun alien abductions, for instance, Senators (how can you tell?) to playing solo or two-on-two at apologized for a misplaced mes- animal mutilations. Other Internet your PC, Mac, or videogame "Sorry for posting this here. locales worth checking out in- box. If you have an irre- _ clB'de sci. skeptic (where Visit the world's ststlble itch to play online, disbelief in the paranormal first virtual check out something runs deep) and ait. para- comedy club, the snappier, like The Imagina- net. paranormal (believers, Internet. tion Network, an all-game believe me). like Whether you online service. Still, if you If you're not into UFOs, your laughs play Doom, the hyperac- tarpt cards, and medical weird, wacky, or tive, hyperviolent share- experiments by Martians,

Irreverent, ware game from id soft- you can still head into space you'll find them ware, check out the Use- by tuning in to newsgroups online. net newsgroup alLgames.- like rec. arts. startrek. tech Doom, where crowds of and rec. arts. startrek. info.

Doomheads pass around The former is flush with tech- player-created levels and nical treatises on every- talk endlessly about how thing from cloaked ships to cool it is to blow chunks of the Enterprise's replicators. body parts off aliens. Why can't they just mass In fact, the Usenet news- produce Data by running groups are the fountain- him through the food pro-

head of fun en the In- cessor? The answer is here. ternet. Essentially collec- Meanwhile, rec. arts. star- tions of E-mail messages. trek. info is a good place to Usenet newsgroups focus dig up the occasional in- on very specific topics. sider news on the Trek Unlike the Internet's mailing lists, My eyes must be going as I shows and films.

which drop their entire contents thought it said altparents.abduct." Even stranger—and I mean in your mailbox every day, news- Some newsgroups take them- strange'—is alt. sex. fetish, startrek, groups can be. subscribed to, selves so seriously that they can't an off-color, offbeat discussion of then browsed when you feel up help but be a hoot. Like alt.para- the one thing Star Trek's always

to it. I call it Internet's radio, with net.ufo, a group that sticks to been shy about: sex. Where else each newsgroup a different sta- discussions about UFOs. When can you read about fantasies in- tion on the dial. And because I've tuned in, I've seen messages volving Q, Data, and the delectable you can read newsgroups through chatting about Venus and its Dr. Crusher? Engage! indeed.

America Online, you don't need connection with UFO sightings, In fact, if there's an opinion, to a nethead be to tune in. conversations about Jimmy Car- there's conversation about it on One newsgroup worth read- ter's UFO experience, and calls the Internet. Often goofy, always ing is rec.humor.funny. It's mod- to join Operation Right to Know irresistible, the Internet is more erated, which means that some- (OFTTK), a group that says gov- than just an information highway. one decides which messages ernments are hiding it all from us. It's the comedy club—intentional get posted. (Most newsgroups Delusion runs more than skin or not—of the Nineties.DO IAJAVE5

SEAWATCH:

' Tracking the ocean from Norway to Thailand

By Janet Stites

The 6.5-meter buoy bob- cal conditions such as climate Great Britain, the Netherlands, and bing vertically in the changes in temperature, wind, Sweden all participate in Sea- water looks like some and air pressure, but also with watch Europe, and the program kind of NASA space probe. Oniy respect to pollution." Currently, has been accepted as a project this probe has been designed the company operates 16 Sea- by Eureka, a cooperation among and employed to explore a dif- watch buoys, ten in European European countries for technol- ferent final frontier—the vast and waters and six off the coast of ogy development. Most recently, restless waters of our oceans. Thailand. The buoys continu- Seawatch has been presented As part of Project Seawatch, ously collect data, monitoring 26 as a system for UNESCO's an international coalition founded environmental and climatic param- Global Ocean Observation Sys- the TV marine in 1987, the buoys use sophisti- eters. The information is sent via tem (GOOS), whose agenda in- adventure cated methods to track and survey two-way satellite to processing cludes monitoring and forecast- series may be the world's oceans. Above water stations and then to the head- ing environmental and climatic are the meteorological sensors, quarters in Trondheim. changes in the world's oceans. the buoy position sensor, and There, scientists from a num- "It is important to have an intelli- satellite communications equip- ber of disciplines including mete- system to monitor changes At line, ment. the water a round orology, oceanography, mathe mat- i the r nent," Hansen says, "as you might have to monitor an arms agreement

between countries, It should be some sort of uniform system so there will not be any arguing about the quality of the data." While the largest concentra- tion of Seawatch buoys remains in the North Atlantic, Oceanor implemented Seawatch Thailand in 1990 at the behest of the Thai government. "With the pollutants

from ship traffic and oil produc- tion in the same area as the tourism industry, fisheries, and fish farming," explains Hansen, "it's important to document the quality of water, particularly for the fish-farming industry and container, not much larger than a ics. computer programming and, fisheries. The system may also on trie high seas. bowling ball, acts as a "waverider" of course, marine biology, work reduce the risk involved with oil such as and holds a GENI processing together to interpret the informa- production and ship traffic." smart huoys unit, as well as the electronics for tion. With their findings they cau- Not far from their offices, the buoy. Below the surface, tion fish farmers and commercial Oceanor's experimental buoy sensors measure temperature, fishermen of poison algae or oil sits in the fjord's cold water, test- salinity, currents, algae, oxygen, slicks, alert oil companies of ing two new devices—an eco- nutrients, and radioactivity. At storms approaching their plat- sounder that counts fish and a any time, researchers can log forms, and advise public authori- heavy metal sensor that docu- into a buoy and get near real- ties of the presence of high radio- ments the metals from pollutants. time information on the immedi- activity and other pollutants. They There is yet much work to be ate environment of the buoy. also provide data for research in- done and data to be collected. "There is increasing concern stitutes, the navy and coast The smart buoys operated by about the marine environment," guards, and tourism industries. companies like Oceanor are only says Seawatch department man- The firsi Seawatch buoys the first generation of a whole ager Svein Hansen from the were deployed in 1990, The proj- new way of thinking about the

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SOFTWARE BY COMPUTER: The DC-X lifts off with the help of automatically generated code

By Caleb John Clark

The unmanned 42-foot- at least- in part to the process de- get the space shuttle tall Delta Clipper Experi- veloped around MATRIXx's capa- off the ground, the DC-X (which mental (DC-X) rocket, bilities, McDonnell Douglas fin- is a scaled-down test version of the obelisk-shaped launch vehi- ished the flight software five what McDonnell Douglas hopes cle built by McDonnell Douglas, months before the hardware was will be a manned launcher) takes is notable for many reasons: It ready, a first in launch vehicle a crew of three. At the Septem- was built in just 18 months; it development. As an added ber 11, 1993, test flight at White takes only a three-person crew bonus, the process has reduced Sands Missile Range in New to fly it it's completely reusable; software development costs by Mexico, the rocket's pilot—for- and most obviously, it both takes about 50 percent over the con- mer Apollo astronaut Pete Con- off and lands vertically. Add one ventional, hand-coded approach, rad—used a mouse and screen more accomplishment to the DC- without compromising quality. graphics that he helped design X's impressive resume: It's the Before generating the code, to select a "vertical motion state" first and only launch vehicle to fly however the McDonnell Douglas flight mode. Translated, that using software code generated team constructed a computer means That he instructed the DC- automatically, meaning that a simulation of the entire DC-X sys- X to take off. computer translated tem from the rock- Conrad then selected the Landing the concepts de- et's design plans "hold" mode, and the DC-X did

feet firsl: Alter signed by human and refined it until it something rockets aren't sup-

completing programmers into ran smoothly. Then posed to do: It stopped dead

a Might lest last f-.ght software. the team generated and hovered absolutely still. The summer "It's a paradigm the software and rocket's software, rather than the using its auto- shift in the way soft- immediately set pilot, compensated for any cross

matically ware is developed," about testing it with winds hitting the vehicle. generated (light says Matt Maras, a the simulated DC-X, "Transition" mode triggered software, software manager saving additional the DC-X to move sideways, an- the Delta Clipper at McDonnell Doug- time and money. other rather strange maneuver Experimental fas Aerospace-West "While the, manufac- for a rocket. Finally, Conrad hit descends to the who worked on the turer is out building "landing state," and the rocket ground. DC-X project. the hardware, you're descended vertically, butt first,

Usually, human modeling it and its landing gear telescoping out of

programmers de- testing it in a real- its base like something out of a sign, write, and test time closed loop with Buck Rogers episode. Barring a the computer source your flight soft- private flight test of the rocket code manually, a ware," explains Diane the previous month, the occasion lengthy, expensive, Quick, a research marked the first time that a launch and inherently error- engineer with Inte- vehicle had ever landed verti- prone process. The grated Systems. cally. (Another first took place McDonnell Douglas "This is a key on big earlier this year, when DC-X suc- team used MATRIXx, a software projects with subcontractors cessfully made an emergency toolkit from Integrated Systems spread across the country." landing after an explosion caused that automates part of that work, Once the hardware is built by hydrogen buildup on the

to support its design for the DC- and begins flight tests, Maras launch pad. At press time it was X software. Instead of laboriously points out, the software design- undergoing repairs and was ex- writing, for example, 100 lines of ers can use the data gathered to pected to finish its flight testing.) code that direct the flight com- modify the software "in hours in- Is the DC-X the future of space puter to perform a certain task, stead of days or weeks." travel? Maybe. Is automatically the designer implements the task One of McDonnell Douglas's generated code the future of description graphically. After ver- objectives in designing the DC-X software programming? Probably.

ifying that the task has been im- was to make it easier and cheap- Its ability to simplify complicated plemented correctly, MATRIXx er to operate, and the innovative programming jobs, saving time then produces source code that flight sofiware plays a large role and money along the way, can maps the task into executable in- in achieving that goal. In contrast help to get a lot of projects be- structions for the corriputer. Due to the thousand-plus people sides the DC-X off the ground.DQ X-Files online.

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CROSSING A NEW ROAD: Summer school for science, not grades

By Lisa G. Casinger

Crossroads Science Insti- Williams and Wise acquired a dents as stipends, much like tute's free summer pro- grant from the Research Corpo- grants at the doctorate level. gram is to cool science ration in Arizona. Wise adver- Wise's summer program epit- what 90210 is to cool zip codes. tised in the local paper requesting omizes Crossroads' basic tenet: CSI, the science arm of Cross- help building the STM, and ten "Education must not be a race roads School for Arts & Sciences, area students signed up. They for the accumulation of facts, but

metamorphoses into a summer- started building the STM in the should be an enriching end in it- science for mecpa Los Angeles summer of 1991, and since then self . . . [and] is a joint venture students. Their idea of summer fun students have migrated to CSI among students, parents, and ranges from building a scanning for summer-science fun. teachers." This venture is en- tunneiing microscope to predict- A graduate student or doc- couraged by instilling a sense of ing the weather. toral candidate might have access community involvement in the stu- Joe Wise, science chair at to an STM, or $30,000 might buy dents. (Community service classes Crossroads and director of CSI, one, but these middle- to high- are required for graduation.) often invites guest speakers to school students built theirs from Wise hdpes more clubs and bus- add a little zip to his physics scratch with $12,500. Students inesses involve themselves with classes. During one lecture, UCLA finished the STM in 1992 and the program, ultimately forming a professor Dr. Stan Williams casu- moved it to its home in CSl's sur- community science consortium ally mentioned that the students face studies laboratory. Now they and exposing more people to cur- ihemselves could build a scan- are experimenting with graphite rent science on a regular basis. wise and ning tunneling microscope (STM). samples and are attempting to Some Crossroads students may his students may STMs are used — in laymen's automate the STM. Wise feels later have careers in science, but spend pari of terms—to study the skin or sur- that following a project like this Wise says, "We're not trying to turn their summers on face of materials. With the micro- from inception to fruition develops out scientists. We're trying to turn the beach, but scope, kids could watch metal a sense of contribution and own- out people who are literate in sci- most ol the time corrode or study how magnetic ership students can't get from ence, math, humanities; people you can lind tape stores data. Wise, who de- their textbooks. who are able to enjoy the full- them tucked away rives pleasure from building any- Wise provides direction and ness of life." in the science thing from a motorcycle engine guidance, but gives the students CSl's next step involves be- labs working an to a linear accelerator, asked if ultimate responsibility. He thinks coming a science and math insti- new research. Williams was serious. He was. being involved encourages their tute. Instead of lifting numbers curiosity and gives them a rea- and formulae from meaningless son to learn. Wise says, "In the text, math students will crunch classroom, they're used to open- the data generated by the sci- ing a drawer and the equipment ence students. Young scientists is there, or the teacher's already and mathematicians will validate

set it up for them." During the each other's work and research, summer, students not only decide and maybe learn something in

what they want to research, but the process. Planning is also un- how to get the money and equip- derway to buiid a microbiology ment they'll need to follow through lab and to finish the radio tele-

with it. The young scientists also scope they've been working on. try their hands at public relations Wise enthuses about future by holding open houses where plans for CSI, but narrows his they explain their research, sights to what he finds most im-

demonstrate the equipment they portant. "I really think that we have built, and maybe raise funds for to get that wide-eyed curiosity future projects. Some funding that they have in the third and comes from grants provided by fourth grades back into the kids the Research Corporation in Ari- who are in the eleventh and zona, the Santa Monica Rotary twelfth grades. Somehow we have Club, and the Santa Monica Am- to let them feel safe at being cu-

ateur Astronomy Club. A portion rious." And he's doing it —one of the grant money is given to stu- summer at a time.DCI cofUTiruuuan THE MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY: See the unbelievable on display. Plus, satellites help farmers plant, and scientists quantify the kilogram

Even before you enter the Museum of Another exhibit is devoted to the life Jurassic Technology, there is a slight and work of memory researcher aura of the surreal, for standing outside Geoffrey Sonnabend, who in the 1940s luring passersby into the tiny exquisite put forward a highly original theory world within is museum director David about the process of memory and for- Wilson, playing the accordion. Mind getting. Sonnabend expounded his you, not in a brash, attention-grabbing "theory of obliscence" in terms of a way, but in a discreet, almost wistful whimsical model involving the interac- plane, is pre- style. It is the first hint that this is not tion of a cone and which in incisive audiovisual, along your average museum. Or perhaps it is sented an the second, for surely there is some- with a reconstruction of the great thing not altogether orthodox about the man's'study. In November, the museum name itself. After all, the Jurassic is not unveils an extensive new exhibit on a period generally known for its "tech- superstitions from around the world. nology." And indeed from the moment From the vast field available, Wilson you cross the threshold of this hidden has chosen many relating to health, in widely Los Angeles treasure it is clear you numbers of which crop up have stepped sideways in the slip- varying cultures. Take for example, stream of perception. "mouse cures." One I especially like Beginning with an audiovisual that concerns baked mouse on toast as a introduces the museum as "an educational instifution guaranteed cure for bed-wetting. dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the Among the museum's long-term interests is a commit- public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic," the visitor is ment to "exhibiting engineering and. artistry on the micro- challenged to reconsider the issue of veracity. When we scopic scale." Several months ago, the museum featured enter the hallowed halls of museums, how much are we an .exhibit of microminiature machines etched out of sili- influenced by the aura of authority which surrounds the con chips. These state-of-the-art pieces were donated by glass cases? What artifacts and stories do we accept institutions at the forefront of nanotechnology, including because they are accompanied by scholarly descriptions Caltech, Case Western Reserve University, and UCLA. Early and Latin names? What ancient or foreign cultures are in 1995, the museum will also hold an exhibit of miniature we convinced of purely on the strength of relics and writ- sculptures carved out of individual human hairs—works ings identified for us by unseen "professors." At the by the late Armenian artist Hagop Sandaldjian, who liter- Museum of Jurassic Technology, the very function of ally had to ply his craft between heartbeats so that museums as cultural institutions is called into question— pumping blood would not interfere with the steadiness of says, is and into play—for above all, the visitor is invited to revel his hand. What drew Wilson to both subjects, he in a grand game of ideas. that "these objects are all on the very outskirts of percep- One of my favorite exhibits deals with the "discovery" tion, and also on the outskirts of believability." and "capture" of a rare South American creature, the That could be a summary of the entire museum. The Deprong Mori or "Piercing Devil," which can tly through fascination of the Deprong Mori is precisely that it hovers solid objects, such as tree trunks and hut walls. In the on the "outskirts of believability." But no less so, one must of oblis- 1950s, we are told, Professor Donald R. Griffith, author oi admit, than baked mouse on toast or theories of the chelropteral classic Echolocation in Bats and Men, cence. In the chimerical atmosphere of the Museum fad ends suspected the mysterious "devil" must be some kind of Jurassic Technology, it is far from clear where here one is bat and hypothesized that it might be using x-rays and fiction begins—or vice versa. Indeed, instead of sound waves for echolocation. Since x-rays forced to realize that fact often is stranger than fiction is often blurred beyond cannot penetrate lead, Griffith reasoned, it should be and that the line between the two possible to capture a Mori inside a block of lead. The distinction—MARGARET WERTHESM result of this insight and Griffith's follow-up field work is p.n the only "Piercing Devil" in captivity—on display at the The museum is open on Thursday, 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 Museum of Jurassic Technology. and Friday through Sunday, 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. conrnnjuunn

ZAP THAT PAINT ture of powdered glass and a microwave enhancer Lead- based paint was like iron oxide, or carbon. banned in 1978 when re- He uses a sort of microwave searchers discovered heat gun to heat the paint that even low-level lead poi- to over 2,000 degrees Fahren- soning could cause re- heit, which causes the tardation and lowered intelli- lead ions to migrate from the gence in children who paint to the slurry's glass ate peeling bits oi paint chips. particles, where they are per-

But it stubbornly remains manently and harmlessly on some 300,000 bridges and trapped by vitrification while an estimated 57 million the now-innocuous paint American homes, so far re- sirn"ply burns off. sisting development of a The wood below the paint

cost-effective way to remove ill be as safe as the food

it without creating even in your microwave tray, ex- more of a health hazard in plains Kumar, who says,

the form of lead dust. . "You just burn the paint, you Ashok Kumar, a metallur- donlt burn the wood. There's gist with the Army Corps no risk of fire." The amount of of Engineers' Construction spray applied controls the Engineering Research amount of heat generated. Laboratories in Champaign, The same thermal Illinois, appears to have spray technology on a grander done just that. In lab tests, he scale can be used to re- discovered that micro- ^e peeling lead-based wave heat can do the job paint from bridges, a costly while causing far fewer problem which few commu- problems than conventional nities can now afford to sandblasting or chemicals. correct because the entire In Kumar's process, the Ige must be covered to lead -pain ted surface is contain the dangerous dust, sprayed with a slurry or mix- —George Nobbe

I'VE GOT SUNSHINE a Weather Panel. Gel makes sure the weath- Panel can be used on ON A CLOUDY DAY Suntek, founded in 1974 er stays temperate so almost any building and will by Day Chahroudi, first a building can't overheat or cost no more than the Using the power of the sun burst upon the solar scene be overbright." average roof. to heat an enclosed with Low-e, a transparent The company's new "The panel can provide space is an idea as old as insulation for windows that Weather Panel, designed to one-sixth of the world's humankind. Equally as prevents heat loss. be installed under a clear energy without pollution or old are the problems that go Now Suntek has created roof, consists of layers of war," Chahroudi claims. along with it: Cloudy a second material called Low-e and Cloud Gel, Having sunk $5 million weather makes for chilly con- Cloud Gel, a clear polymer working in combination to into developing Cloud ditions, while a surfeit of that when heated to a let in "cloud light"—weak Gel, the company plans to sunlight creates too much certain temperature turns light that penetrates winter license it and its Weather heat. An Albuquerque, opaque and blocks sun- clouds—for heating and Panel knowhow worldwide. ''JfcTvv Ivi ex i co-based compa- light. "A lot of atriums and sun lighting and to reflect excess Chahroudi expects the ny, however, may have spaces just become solar sunlight. Tested at the device to reach the commer- solved this age-old problem ovens," Day Chahroudi ex- Belgium Building Research cial market this year. with a new device called plains. "It's as if Cloud Institute, the Weather —Deborah Seabrooke

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MILK MEDICINE BRASS, BOWS, AND After just a week's VIOLINS work, Hayden came up with Milk might do your body more the first version of the good than you thought Most people know that a good bow about two years ago. He by offering the cure to some violin costs some serious shaped the hollow shaft of today's most deadly money, even if its not a Stradi- out of tubular metal and used intestinal illnesses. Scientists varius. But few realize nylon fasteners to hold have found that antibodies that a professional-quality the bow's sturdy, synthetic taken from milk target bacte- bow can carry a hefty hair- in place. The molec- ria that bovines and some price tag as well— into the ular structure of a metal bow humans have in common: thousands of dollars. allows overtones to ex- cryptosporidiosis, an Recently, a University of South press themselves better, often-fatal diarrhea that af- Florida violin professor Hayden says. flicts many AIDS patients; tinkered in his garage vfith Since crafting the proto- gastrointestinal-tract infec- parts from a local hard- type, he's solicited sug- tions like those suffered ware store and invented an gestions for improvement by chemotherapy patients; alternative bow that pro- from colleagues and stu- and H. pylori, the most duces high-quality sound at dents who have tried out the common form of peptic ulcer. a bargain-basement price. bow, perfecting his inven- Biomune Systems, a After five years of teaching tion with their help. The bow's

Utah-based biogenics firm, "at USF, William Hayden, retai price is expected to has developed and patent- mune. The antibodies in an associate professor in the be between $90 and $1 50. ed a process to extract these Immuno-C kill only the harm- school of music, wanted "I've used it myseff and can antibodies from whey, a ful bacteria, sparing the to offer his students something testify the feeling of it is milk byproduct. The company good stuff, he claims. besides the low-budget, ve-y solid on the strings," says uses them to synthesize a Because of its proposed high-maintenance bows the USF professor of music highly potent form of colos- use with AIDS, Immuno-C school had In inventory. Armin Watkins, who rehears- trum, the milk secreted by has been placed on the Food "Young students are generally es with Hayden regularly a mother during the first few and Drug Administration's given material in the form for a faculty ensemble. "When days after giving birth, accelerated-approval list as of cane or very cheap wood compared with good that will deliver a superstrong an investigative new drug. for the bow, and these wooden bows, the sort most dosage of antibodies to As a result, Biomune will soon are not very efficient in con- professionals use, it does failing immune systems. begin conducting the three ducting nice vibration consistently produce a rich- Biomune's drug, called ln> phases of human testing patterns," Hayden says. er sound."—Tracy Mygrant toxicity, efficacy, and op- timal dosage—simultane- A NEWBORN KANGAROO ously, rather than con- secutively, as the FDA's pro- WEIGHS ABOUT 0.03 cedures normally require. OUNCES AND CAN FIT According to Derrick, INTO A TEASPOON. Immuno-C has many other potential uses, including treatment of such common muno-C, would offer an afflictions as acne and alternative to antibiotics, which traveler's diarrhea. In De- indiscriminately attack all cember 1993, the Vander- the bacteria inside the body. btlt University School of Med- "Antibiotics not only eradi- icine in Tennessee se- cate the disease, they kill the lected the drug for testing intestinal flora that help as part of its research you digest food and fight off into prevention and treatment diseases," explains David for prostate cancer. G. Derrick, president of Bio- —Lloyd Chrem coruTiruuunn

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vary widely from one area specific farming can-in- . sity in Greensboro. on a sensor to be attached to another—would tell the crease yields while reduc- Mark Morgan, assistant to the front of a farm farmer precisely where to ing chemical use. professor of agricultural implement, enabling the plant and how much pesti- But the cost of this new engineering at Purdue, ad- farmer to perform his cide and fertilizer to technology may be too mits that the cost of taking own soil tests on the go. use at that specific, site. high for the small farmer, cau- and testing soil samples eve- —Deborah Seabrooke

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: the light, and contends the craft ve-se s vast r i: brushed orougn and evolution fe-x- :he laic D . J. A en Hynek. who. during his ham-radio antenna and knocked ible enough to forge ntelligent species the 1940s and 1950s, worked as an as- down tree branches in his backyard. A tnrojgnout the cos~cs, especially on tronomer at the Smithsonian, North- strange, ashlike sphere the size of a golf ear-nlike planets around sunlike stars western University, Ohio State Uni- ball was later found in his yard. Rich in Yet we feel the feat of interstellar travel versity, and Harvard, producing rigor- evidence, this intriguing ircicer-t has al- would be tricky, even for gen uses of tie ous papers on electronic satellite Lack- ready investigated seen by police and cosmic kind. In the end, there's just one ing and supernovas. At first a hard- 'ire eeuariments and by researcners n thing we sense for sure: The UFO data neaced sKeptic, Hynek a so worked for a lab. The needed culmination for all this suggests a mystery—unabiding, unre- :he AL Force, coking into L-0 repc-ts data: synthesis, D a in which an explana- solved and sometimes downright for the notorious -eject Blue Bock. Al- might tion emerge. spooky—- in which strange phenomena though Blue Book has. ir -scent years, Multiple witnesses and physical ef- continue to go unexplained. been discredited as a PR organ of an fects also define dramatic sightings In our search for evidence, explain- Air Force intent on debunking any and over southwestern Michigan, where ing is mostly what we aim to do. As in- all UFO reports. Hynek himself wen: hundreds of people reported have red vestigates have found in the past, the through a conversion at its helm. As he and white fights moving in circles large majority of UFO sightings are 'pIIpwgc' "the program," squelching trirough the sky. Here, the documenta- rooted in the mundane. Whether sight- one UFO flap after the next, he oegan tion includes police reports confirming ings have proved to be practica, jokes to doubt his own words, "Somewhere :he strange phenomena as well as data and hoaxes, meteors, clouo forma- along the line," he told Omni, "I real- rom the National Weather Se-viee at tions, ball ligrxihg. satellites, Sovel or ized that I wasn't being sc'entificaily the Muskegon County Airport, wncre "b ac<" aircraft under development in hpnest. The sichtirgs needed further "eieorobgists have tracked the lights the United States, some 90 percent of ir vestigat on, but we were disregarding on radar. While experts concede that .-; UK! reooits investigated are even- them, throwing the data away." radar alone car oe misleading, it does tua'ly explained. Just sift through our That realization put Hynek on a patii add weight to reports and suggests pasl columns on the subject, and you he would follow for the rest of his life. that something might afoot. be will see that finding res -wor c explara- He oegan mak'ng copies of all the doc- And in Alabama, an ac- uments to come out of Blue counting teacher and mother Book and gathered data of two says her abduction by IN THE MIDST OF that would ailcw him to a isria was harrowing. Her story, study UFOs as they had precise in its detail, echoes ALL THE ABDUCTION STORIES, CONSPIRACY never been studied before. the claims of hundreds of other He classified the various alleged abductees who have THEORIES, AND HYPE, types of reports and even come out of the closet oi late. traveled around the coun- But given all the recent re- IS THERE ANY INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE, try investigating the more search on false memory syn- interesting ones. Hynek drome, can anyone accept her SOLID AS NUTS AND agreed that many of the account, rendered through sightings could be ex- deep hypnosis, as literally BOLTS, OF VISITATION FROM ON HIGH? plained. But, he held, there true? Well, it might be easier was "nothing in the ac- to evaluate if some of the evi- cepted scientific paradigm dence described by abductee Leah tions for the UFO phenomenon has to explain them all." Haley turns real. out to be From odd been our impetus throughout. His obsession resulted, in 1973, in scatctes and scoops on her skin to In seeking to explain, moreover, the founding of the Center for UFO weird malfunctions in her security sys- Open Book will - continue to embrace Studies in Evanston, Illinois. Ou: of tnis tem to alleged harassment by it Omni's longstanc'ng oohcy oi Ho-med small operation run mostly through the in fatigues, men Haley claims to have a skepticism. Show-me-from-fv'sseuri donations of friends, he produced -e- elhora o" evicence that p sets her story types, we will abide by the skeptic's spected papers and monographs In a apart from other, more anecdotal tales. tenet: Extraordinary claims require ex- field replete with misguided enthusi- These incidents all have one thing in traordinary levels of proof. In our philo- asts, psychopaths, and frauds. common: offer They evidence that can sophical universe, if we do not work In the end, the so-called science of be analyzed, fertile ground for Omni's hard to find an explanation — an ordi- u A ie*i Hyne< went soft. Critics-, and newest venture. Pr;;;ect Ooer 3cck r nary explanation—for each and every ever friends, oecan to say he'd become our effort to examine the UFO phenom- case we opk into, then our wor* has s'lOCKirciy gullibe. He spent some of enon, our basic question is clean In the not been done, When we send our re- his last days in the luxurious Arizona midst of all the sightings, all the claims searchers out to sift through evidence home of a wealthy, but "anonymous" counterclaims, and all the abduction for signs of E.T, you can bet your bot- benefactor who subsenbec to a psychic scenarios, conspiracy theories, and tom dollar the terrible burden of proof interpretation of UFOs and promisee' hype, is there any incontrovertible evi- will stay with us. And Open Book's nna. Hynek he would create for him the dence, solid as nuts and bolts and query will always be the same: Is there most lavish UFO center in the world. plain as day, of visitation from r on hig.n? any evidence that proves, to ou satis- When Hynek died of brain cancer in We feel we are in a good position to faction and beyond the shadow of a April 1986, it was easy for sympathiz- pose this question because we have doubt, that the alien interpretation of ers to say he'd gone insane. no axe to grind. an editorial staff, As we UFOsisforreal? Today, Hyneks legacy—his original are not yet convinced the invasion has UFO researchers have attempted to notion that UFOs could be studied with begun, Yet we don't have the knee-jerk access Ihis issue from the start. One as much scientific rigor as a volcano or instinct to material debunk just be- of the first to try to bring the scrutiny pf a. lake— lives on in a nandful pf serious cause it's weird. 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ARTICLE BY A chilly drizzle falls from the the effects crew rocks the set the machine as needed, run by Antoine oe Saint- and weariness. He holds no in a new theater complex it's gray sky over Vancouver as plane wildly to ERIN MURPHY simulate. but stili the crew eyes it Exupery (Amadeus' Tom reai hope of saving himseff; building in New York City, the crew of Wings of Courage storm's buffeting winds, and nervously for the first signs of Hulce), an adventurer best instead, he's merely trying to Annaud accepted the chal- scurries about the tarmac of Sheffer wrestles with the an impending breakdown. known as the author of The ensure that his body can lenge, convinced that 'the small Back Bay Airport to set controls in what the script This unlikely giant is an Little Prince. Henri and his easily be found so that his new format and shorter up the .film's next shot. Tech- dictates will be a vain attempt IMAX 3-D camera, the only fellow pilots fly mail daily in wife (Elizabeth McGovern of length— Wings clocks in at nicians carefully arrange to keep the plane airborne. one of its kind, and while biplanes over the Andes Ordinary People) will receive about 35 minutes—was ideal lights, the special-effects crew Moments later, Annaud calls Sheffer may play the film's mountains between Santiago the money from his life-insur- for the tale. gets into place, and actor "Cut!" and the crew prepares leading role, it is truiy the de Chile and Buenos Aires, ance policy without delay. And Annaud himself is Craig Sheffer [A River Runs to film it all over again. star of this production. sort of an extremely dangerous The Oscar-winning director ideal for the task of bringing Through It), wearing a leather Amid the of buzz activity, Annaud and company are early version of Federal Ex- has wanted to film Guillaumefs an unproven technology to flying cap and goggles, climbs the focus of attention on the using the notoriously temper- press: The route is so treach- remarkable story for years the feature-film world. His into the cockpit of a World set is not Sheffer, nor any of amental camera to shoot the erous that roughly one pilot is but considered It too thin to movies demonstrate his War l-era biplane mounted the olher actors, nor even first IMAX 3-D feature film killed each month. Henri sustain a 90-minute-plus willingness to take risks on a giant gimbal. At a signal Annaud, but instead a hulk- ever. Set in 1930, it tells the crashes in the Andes in winter movie. So when Sony Pictures professionally: The charac- from director Jean-Jacques ing, improbably black shaped true story of Henri Guillaumet and spends six tortuous days Entertainment asked him to ters in Quest for Fire spoke Annaud, powerful fans whip contraption. A technician hov- (Sheffer), a flier for a South walking through the moun- consider making a short only a primitive language the rain into Sheffer's face. ers constantly nearby to cos- American airmail company tains, delirious with pain, cold, IMAX 3-D feature to showcase expressly for the — —

or director Jean-Jacques Annaud, pushing the limits ol technology ftthe art of filmmaking.

J ™; Tns Bear concentrated en ursine its stars, treating humans lh special th eaters with huge as only peripheral characters, In screens up tc eight stories high, addition. Annaud is an avia stu- they're most en ted dent of both the history of tech- documents es on sub nology and of film, and he is ranging from keenly aware o" the crucial rols nsuo say: :nc! n life cycle of t

Wings could ir p!ay making the a: May afternoon To fill those h IMAX 3-D format either the next as the sun ks feebly through films use a ve logical step in the future of film- the clouds. don't want to be to create an image ten imes making or the latest technological looked at as a fool." la-'ger— anc much sna- oer gimmick to fall by the wayside. IMAX 3-D seems the logical than the 35 mil.imeter "3"-e "History has shown that there culmination of the IMAX film useo for the vast majority of are two kinds of filmmakers format. Anyone who's visited a feature films. L:

At first it was the downtown Bijou—a one- or the Sony IMAX Theatre, we want to take that two-story building sporting a brightly lit marquee past into the future." Walking into the complex and names like Chaplin, Swanson, and Valen- from Broadway Avenue, patrons are met by a tino, But as war-weary Americans moved into 65-foot color mural collage of great movie th& suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s, they took palaces such as the Paradise Theatre and the their movie houses with them. Open-walk malls, Avalon. Downstairs, a smaller black-and-white a new idea in community shopping, began to mural depicts behind-the-scenes shots from emerge as a mecca for adults and children famous films. There is even a column used as with idle time- .and money to spend. Clever a vertical time line which traces the major theater owners saw an opportunity to cash in events in cinema history. the growing on trend—why show one picture, Although the showcase of the complex is

when you can show two or ten. Today, multi- the IMAX Theatre with its impressive 80-by- plex cinemas are a permanent and entrenched 1 00-foot screen, personal sound devices, and feature of malls all over the country. 3-D goggles, there are twelve additional More recently, developers are expanding theaters, ranging from 150 to 900 seats. They theaters into entertainment complexes complete incorporate advanced technology into an with virtual roller coasters, video arcades, food architectural space designed "to create a courts, promotional tie-in vendors as well as a cinema experience that has an entertainment dizzying array of movie selections. Sony value beyond the film," according to Robert Theatres, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Green, a partner at Gensler & Associates. company, however, has taken a different spin Each theater, designed around Hindu, Chinese, on the old slogan that bigger is better. At the Moroccan, Olympic, Egyptian and other similar Sony IMAX Theatre in New York City.' high-tech themes, is replete with ornate entrance portals entertainment brokers are gambling that the and interior detailing, as well as state-of-the-art movie-going public is ready for a future that, lighting and sound. ironically, is also a celebration of the past. Going to the movies has survived world wars, The building's interior, designed by the the Great Depression, the Cold War. riots and architectural firm Gensler & Associates, is a revolution, disco, Disney World, and home video. strange merging of high tech and nostalgia. As At the Sony IMAX Theatre, where walking into the Mary Jane Dodge, the IMAX project director for -heaie- itself is still quite a thrill, there is a strong Sony Theatres, explains, "This complex is an suspicion that it's not just the pictures that we've homage to the great theaters of the past. With beer going to see.—Anna Copeland H ALTITlflt 8MAG @Mua DEVELOPED DY REAL ROCKET SCIENTISTS/

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Corpora:io.n, which developed and roojlatior bad wth audiences for vari- of ! 1 a„y see oa-t tne r g -or SOLIDO, the a day, you're lucky." he reiates. C early. When it d;mes to tne IMAX 3-D During a th'ee-oay visit k the set. owns the technology that bears its ous reasons- cheap 7 gassss. dad pcsi- engreers igj-ed out. the two cam- such a leisurely pace would simply not cameras "cun ibersome' .s a kind word. watch the crew soenc a ~c ;r no and

name, nas begun making 3-D films t ciing of ooiee:s w thin the 3-D space. eras' .enses must be side by side. They wok for a foature production, which Even the dual- filmstrip rtiodel is an ab- much of an afternoon settir g uo and again, all documentaries in ihe huge poor r — illumination, shaky cameras and worked for nearly four years on an en- normally calls for directors to shoot be- solute t -ctn co-oa'ed to the Shooting a very oomio ex sce ie in which IV1AX format Chances are most movie- pro.ectors, a. o! wi oh cemo.ned tc tire y rew 3-D came-a. which shoots 35-millime- thunderstor 1™ rages cu:s tween 10 and 12 "set-uos." c shots. sleek, re f unobtrusive a goers haven't seen one of these films produce Headaches, strain, eye and bath SOLIDO and regular IMAX 3-D each day. So in June 1993, Annaud ter cam useo for conventional house, lightning "lasmng z lose" and only seven of the world's 100-plus queasy Aiming stomachs. to solve a: and which indeed has sioe-by-s.de too-: the dua-filmstrip camera and the films. Th nera's size affects every closer The lighting -see the' icuse must MAX theaters car. show IMAX 3-D films, least the shaky-camera problem, lenses. Unlke ctner 3-D cameras, how- larger IMAX 3-D tr food-mounted rig aspect o production, "We've been be absolutely oe'foct arc a couo'e of anc jus: four movies have been made s : Canada Natonal Film Board and" ever, it dcesn't contain two - - cameras." members haw tc pul the heavy complete arc moot tr , as so used on Wings ou Icing the s ets for these crew so far. The newest 3-D theater, " IMAX ISTEC, a manufacturer of gyro-stabi- separate Instead, it ie.-. at loGovern cameras. Teilurioe, 1 "o thirk in camera hack a feel nas two along with a sma I crew, to Annaud says, "and had ac- Sony's 650-seat complex in New York zed olatforrns that keep movie turn cam- enses ana two n'l— move'- en ts nsde a Colorado, tor fcj- days, where at 13,000 vance w 1 cou'd put the camera wg ks "rom one 'com tc a""rW to

: C ty. coens in November, with an exclu- eras r 4 ock-steady djring all sorts of s ogle camera housing. The image ee1 up in tne "lojrta ns. he ; ilmed a angie to 3 the set accommodate ol a light RIHng this scene once p re- : sive seven-month run of Wings r of Cour- filming conditions, developed in Ihe viewed by each lens reflects off a mir- mar .val-irg. The resut'ng fectage oc them ant sents enough o a cnai erce but th. sis age, tne frst IMAX 3-D narrative film mid ; r, 1980s a gyro-staoil zee camera ror then time t i first time. and onto the unexposed ilm in no story bi: : ss d volLimes to Annaud In rra ws tne s ze cf the cam- the second around T slated to begin early nexl year. set-up = called a 3-D Rig. Like STECs each of the two movements. This set- and h's col.aborators "vVe nad :o era is ti st ol its problems. It's a a screw had worked loose rw cosed

IMAX 3-D takes all the advantages camera platforms, the 3-D Rig 1 had to up actually produces a better image ;;rovs ;o OL.'seives—because nooocy prototype in e /ery sense of the word: It the shutter on one erf the to : e*ses in- of IMAX 2-D and cicjb.es them—liter- be suspended from a crane or a heli- '.nan most 3-D side the hous ng Bffactivei) cameras oecause eacn beiieved it—that we could do four o- b'eaks dowr i with maddening fre- camera ally, The basics of 3-D filming haven't "' copter. In the late 1980s, Imax Corpo- lens and movement car caoture most of five set-ups a day," explains Chads quency, and there's no 'eplacement snooting the scere in 2-D. ; ff/. had changed since the 1950s, 3-D ration when and ISTEC created a newer the ava 'able ght according lo Claude Horton, Wings' producer, "We did that can be * whisked in. (For various no idea the camera had mai Fund rxied was introduced via a variety of grade-B version of the gyro-stabiiized 3-D Rig Richard, until r^i ihes manager of the camera deoant- twenty-six shots in four days." reasons . the IMAX 3-D rig can't be they watcnec foe Days horror flicks. The 3-D shooting process and used it to shoot two 3-D films. But ment at tne i MAX Technology Center. ater at Vancouver s MAX3-C The "Tellunde taught me that 1 should used for / of Wings' shots.) While mimics the way we see. filming every- filmmakers and engineers alike found two-way mirror, ; ;u can or beamsplitter, used in not listen to the peoole who said ;t ilm ng in ticjrta-.s. after spending Because the only olace y< see thing twice with the distance between the ng toe boxy, arc so they sacrificed in conventiona 3-D Rigs spits the light wasn't possfole.' Arnaud says as tne hours hf : al the equ potent and IMAX 3-D footage in 3-D is sucn a the two cameras approximately the the gyro si-ply and mounted ihe 3-D that enters the cameras, refecting half crew rattles ousily around nim. setting crew me 3 up by helicopter to the theater. Annaud has no way si knowmg

same as that a person's tripod, 1 between eyes Rig on I a which, surprisingly. to one lers and half to the other up an interior shot. "Anc basically what location je the t-ee ine, "once exactly what he's shooting ideec. tne two and one-half inches. The two cam- worked just fine for most shots. A.thougn mis 1 camera even have a viewfnde' prototype "dual-film* it taught me was that tney were cum- every thr ee d; lys, would set my cam- doesn't eras, however, don't sit side by side. A couple of years later. Imax Corpo- strip' f through. Instead. Ar and camera rurned out thirc i to loo*; inaud about a bersome came as. out 1 cou o do a reg- era. get eady to shoot, say 'oil, and—" instead, camera is hori- ration one mounted decided that it wanted to be able smial'er than its^p-edecessors, it still of .—s-maiograonbi Pcoert =m sse, ncmi- ular movie. 1 'would have to strugge to Annaud m mic;s the grinding sound zontally, look i-.g :hrojgh a two-way mir- -.0 make 3-D films in its newest film for- a handful to the least nated for ar. Oscar fc h's oK on An- say make : wok but 1 'would have some- the cami eak'ng down "You have w ror at the image direct y ahead, and ihe mat, called IMAX SOLIDO, which uses Lover, : grainy i for peer a a And time my aston sning at the end. And it this full iafs been struggling naud's The other ooinis down into the mirror, film- a iisheye ; lens to capture a 150-ceg'es Even its deve;- tec me as well that couldn't dream o you, am actors are emotionally black-and-wnite mage on a t iy v Geo ing the image reflected upward. f:o of view. d But r such lenses were in- Annaud says, doirg more thar five or six sei-ups a ceo a ret thats your cay. So that's monitor plugged nt« the camera. Three-dimensional movies earned a stalled .the existing on rig, they'd actu- j Oo one set-jp day; I'm do ng 4.7 as an average." a terribly We're blind," Annaud says simply as

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seeing on the viewfinder what I am D play games with tne camera and dream ke arc: yet very real." project going to on a screen the size o' with the viewer's eyes, moving the Of course, having a film, image sim- an eigh:-story-tail building. camera lenses farther apart o r closer u'ate reality so pe-'ecty opens an un- Not oniy can Annaud not see. the togetnor :a make Things onscreen look e-oec;ed can of worms for a feature actors can't hear. The camera makes so smaiier or a-gs' -esoec;ively, than ilm crew. Arte' all. what they're filming noise that much during a dream se- they actually are. Annauo however is '""est definitely na rea ty. "Filmmak-

I being quence watch filmed in Saint- nas shied away -ro^ these visual ing is about cheating," Annaud con- Exjpery o erf ice. with Sheffer just a few tricks, electing to presen- —ayes as cedes, "and here we almost cannot eel away from Hulce. neither actor can naturally as poss ble That ire udes v r- cneat." Everylrng the IMAX camera catch more than a few words of what the lually eliminating the old standby of 3- sees enos to onscreen ir crisp, c ea r other says. Hulce jokes it about as he D films; objects surging out of the color—and it sees everytmng. "in IV1AX views :he scene on tne video mon'tor screen toward the moviegoer for no if you can see it with you.' eyes, you and nears for the first time the lines Shel- practical reason whaTsoeve" "Why do I can see it on the screen." says co- ter has uttered. The actors will need to do neeo to have the actors throwing oucer Holon, "which means you can't ex:ensve 'looping'— speaK.ng their 7 " lines tnings at me Anraud asks. "I mean, have fake marble walls, you can't have again in a studio, synchronizing it's silly. In ; them movies, you don't have rake anyrhirc l ycu can see it's -ake wi:h perfectly with the movements I of their things thrown at you always remem- your eye. it' look ~ake on the screen." lips onscreen. While ocpirc- is fairly r a ber tne m sTakes of "he n' st fakies, "o make The se:s loc* as aulner:ic as common practice on Hollywood fea- whet; peop'e beieved that because it possible, tne set cresse-s on Wings t-res. looping virtually an entire film isn't. was a movie with souno. you had to searched for as many real set decora-

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I VI 3-D. The -"ilm rnagaz'nes AX used on tne sees;" at moviecoe's. Annauo old calendars— all in Spanish. The Wings only : hem a ew tnousand feet of wants to brirg viewers into the 3-D wa'orobe crew deessec l.ne cast only in film, 'oug.nly giving three minutes of soace createc orsceen IMAX in par- natural materials available in 1930, snooting time— usually two to keeping an eagle eye out three takes. "When it's dry, for seemingly minor anom- you can reload in ten minutes SHEFFER FOUND HIMSELF alies such as plastic but- wth two or three people," tons that would stanc out says Ernie a film McNabb, TAKEN ABACK BY THE REALITY OF THE IMAX 3-D in IMAX like a wristwatch on :ecnrocgy soecia.st wih :he a Roman centurion, Such r National Im Board wro's work- IMAGE, PARTICULARLY WHEN attention to detail added ing as stereographer on this considerably to Wings' production, "On a standard HE WATCHED FOOTAGE OF HIMSELF. "IT WAS budge;, which Horton camera, if an operator takes coyly characterizes only as more than a minute to reloaa, ALMOST LIKE SITTING BESIDE "more than a Merchant- he's considered slow," Ivory picture but less than "When you have momen- MYSELF—VERY DREAMLIKE AND YET VERY REAL." ClifSbanger. " tum," explains, "then Annaud | The audience will have your actors do one take, two time to take a leisurely look takes, three takes, and then about take ticular makes Mia; possible, he says, at all of those carefully chosen items, J ve or six or seven, they have it. and because its clarity and size create an oecause The average shot in Wings then it's done. Here, between takes image amazingly close to reality. "It asts at least 10 seconds—a veutaole three four. I and have to reload. I lose a puts you in a situation wnere you can eternity in these MTV, quick-cut ti-es. scene I ke that every week." believe more in In what you see. IMAX "What you want to dc ir ar I MAX the- Just getting a scene onto celluloid 3-D, if you have a wide landscape and ater is look around the screen," Ho'ton can be difficult enough when filming in it's very windy, you would see T'.e crass points out. Annaud and his co-wnter, IMAX 3-D, but Annaud and fvlcNabb moving shh-shh-shh, so you would fee Alain Godard (The Name of the Rose), must also worry exactly about what that wind— I should say, the texture of delibe-ately wrote the script as more of- scene looks like—and not just in terms wind—while in a regular 2-D movie, a stage play than a film, with relatively of fighting and costuming. When an oo- there's no way I can show you that. I few cuts arc rone of mem fast. Sent to jec* aopears cut of place in a conven- have to have a tree bending in front of Ca'^e-'oon in his youth to maLgu-ate a tional 2-D film, a moviegoer may be you to give you The dea— not the feel- film industry there, Annaud craws a annoyed; in a 3-D film, he or she can ing Out the idea—o' wind," Annauo parallel oeiween ratves seeirg "owes end literally nauseated, up Bad stere- continues, "You never feel it on your for the first time and modern audiences ography—placement of ob|ec;s within skin. In IMAX 3-D, when you see dust, unfamiliar witn IMAX 3-D. "The natives the 3-D space—accounts for much of you close your eyes because you're would always prefer a long scene be- the sick feeling and eye strain that afraid it's getting on your cornea." cause there was time to make up their viewers experience during inferior 3-D Sheffer found himself taken aback minds; 'Oh, tnis is a building, ano this films. As ste-eograpnar, fvlcNabb eval- by the reality of the IMAX 3-D image, is a cloud,' and so on. Editing was dis- uates each shot, making sure that the parcu.arly wner he waicheo Vciape turbing for them. We are those primi- shot composition and camera align- of himself. "It was the first time that I've tives with this new meaium in 3-D ment don't the viewer's cause eyes to seen myself the way I imagine others That's why I'm doing slow movements, converge excessively, a problem that see me," he says. "Physically, the because then the perspective s can tesult from placing objects or ac- image on the screen is sunder, so it Changrg slowly and the viewer can tors too close to the camera, or to di- makes the character's personality feel comfortable." (For the same rea- verge, which is : completely unnatural. rounder and more rea somenow. It was son, Annaud decided to make Wings s 60 OMM isle,: vely snort fii™. he anicipr-rea 'pa-t- ing two mors 30- to 40-rnmute films one about Saint-Exupery and another about heroic aviator Jean Mirrnoz (played oy Val K'lmer of Tombstone and The Doors) arc ultimate y stitch- ing the three toaether into a ful'-ienatr- IMAX 3-D feature.) Virtually a walking history of film, An- naud a moment later likens the unhur- ried look of Wings of Courage to a Hiichccck —ov e. "he would cc sce~e.- two ""inutes. three ^irutes. sometimes the whole roil —eleven minutes. It has an aovantage: It takes you to the real tempo of life. Most -ovies a-e shot rather quickly and in a way where you J can manipulate your reality because c the amount of coverage"— shooting a scene from many different angles sc that the director can choose aro^g them in the editing room. "Here my ma-

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Oh, China," she said. She burst sobbed, tro in : ~ Zuricn o- d.idapest A: ine l into tears. ?" I said; "Can you drive "No." s,ne sad.

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fetch you." r ; ; years I lived with ne I s!eo:so sourdt- a twc-Trre GTE nsj^n^e •rite-o f I ,'-" "You can't," she said. "I'm here. Ycu =- ," '. '-• " Then Alexander bid lr s i-revcs r; --e---* * - -->-~n cusrar- can't come here." ---' thing to her. the thmg she nao alwa/= teec - ^ov* * ----- ^Britain

I said: outside, love, "Be jus: try warded r l and now eve'vtninc is fjcKec wi;h,r twelve rcj = -nca=iona ly T the

: a -a go; yourself downstairs. -. Be out- up and eer e and it wih bo :hat or ue. - -.' --= wav e't^d coirs in side I'll ano pick you up on tne pave- forever, -. Ejrop- Hscorr j DMA: wuses at mentthere." :"-- I said: 'Til take you home." < - - contra -re *',i , "Wm='s ir There was a silence. "Will you stay?" live hcsts eel cultures in heavtl* a--

"Can that?" ,. you do "What else?" , , i , . i . i. , Yes. snesarj.

' . | had no idea. ad-.', really want an - Uh, China, i he rst :wc oays she My name is Micx Rose, wmch is wh v idea until much late- and that turned wouldn't get much further than that. pecole nave a ways caned me "China." out to be much too late.

"Don't try to talk," I advised. From the moment we net, Isobel . sa.d: "Itc n't oe so nard to earn." Lonoon was as quiet as a Avens was fascinated by that. Later "Flying?" home corridor. I turned up sne woulc hold my -ace between her "It can't be so hard." stereo. Tom Waits, Downtow hands nigh: 1 ^- n the anc whsoer cea Before a wee* was out we were in- Music stuffed Witn sentimei ily over and over-"Oh. China. China, venting one another hand ove' list It sooQ-nise but o'aren't adm,t :c * imething an extraordinary summer, You

I let the BMW slip down Greer ne. The year have to imagin through into Camden the cent ire -en- Avon. Satu'cay at vVatc- west. I was pushing the odd traffic ught at orange, clipping 11 he apex o a safe bond he r s IT ISN'T THAT SHE WANTS and there. I told myself I wasn't going to get ,

EVERY TIME I SMELL HER BODY HEART MY LURCHES. THE YEARS I

LIVED WITH HER I SLEPT water two love's, trappeo n the great circular argu- SO SOUNDLY. NOW EVERYTHING IS EERIE. ment, aremakng tnat futile

half past twelve I was i attempt all .overs make to eensborough Road, get inside one another and

I found her \ standing -alked into the cafe at the little tpy for good. He can't stop

-odrome they have there and it was i who served me, She was twenty- = yea-s old- slow, heavy-bodied, ;,iy delighted by the world. hair Her : up w:n some sfands of

ien weed. R.pplmg in the m breeze which blows ver from the oirection of ped her was as great lese seem for a moment else he did. She she s, ed with a delicate knot— ierage from the amusf ;-liberate artifice of a con-

"Oh. Iook! Loc

vanilla sex. " ano She -adiafed heat. I 'o have to eave the aerodrome." was oul from ^noe' her feet. could always feel the heat of her a yard He says: "Come and live with ne

; / she was only h s patient and be a swan." tne meta 'c glare the o- st-cei "I'd love to oe able to fly," she told Neither of them has the Slightest ot'eed a stipple : uce-ation o idea what they are talking about, h coaroones. : swtched on, She iaughed and nuggeo hei

esy light to i look closer. Tinymy "You must feel so free." Business was good, Wtn.n three es. ccsely spaced. She thought I was the pilot ol months I had bought a second van. I ile private Cessna she ccuic see cut of persuaded iscoel Avens to leave Strat- said st a the cafe wincow. In fact I had only ^orti and throw in with me. On the side effect." come to oe'ver its cargo— an jnadmit- morning of her last day at the aero- "Is- anything worth this?" ted .oac for an jnad~ittod cestma- drome, she woke jp earv and shook me until I was awake, toe. need "& soon." -emembei wis! lad naopened. Then "China!" she said. She clutched at me. this appalling cull asthmatic noise "What?" "You help me to f.y." she saic. 'Don't would come out of her—"zhhh, zhhh, "China!" dare go away, China! Don't dare!" zhhh," somewnere bclween reich ; ng

I said: "What?" She pulled my iace close lo hers and whining—as she ir'ed to suppress "I flew!" and gave me little dabbing kisses on the memory, and wake me up, and It was a dream of praxis. It was a the mouth and eyes. I looked at my sob, all at the same time. hint of what she might have. It her Halt was watch, past six. The bed was al- I was always awake anyway. first step on the escalator to up Alexan- ready damp and hot: I could see thai it will "Hush how, get better. I know."

der's clinic. to it we were going make worse. She I knew because she had done the "I was in a huge computer room, pulled me on top of her, and at the same thing to me. everyone's work was displayed on one height of things, sweating and inturned "China, I'm so sorry,"

screen ke a wall. I couldn't find my A- and breathless and on the edge, she "Hush, Don't be sorry. Get better." prompt!" People laughed at her, but whisoered, "Oh. lovely, lovely, lovey," "I'm so sorry to have made you feel nicely. "It was all good fun, and they as if she had seen something I like this." were very helpful." Suddenly she had couldn't. lovely, "So so beautiful!" Her I wiped her nose. learned what she had to know, and she eyes moved as if she was watching "Hush." was floating flying into up and the something pass. I could only watch Thai part was easy. I could dress screen, and through it, "out of the her, moving under me, marvellous and her ulcers and take care cr wha: was room, into the air above the worlc." The wel, solid and real, everything I ever coming out of "hem, relieve the other sky was crowded with other people, wanted. effects of what they had done to her in

said. 1 she "But just went swoop re Miami, and watch for whatever else past and around and between them." The worst thing you can do at the be- might happen. I could hold her in my let herself She fall just for the fun of it: ginning of something fragile is to say all night tell lies arms and and believe I she soared, her whole body taut it is. and what The night I drove her back was only there for her. trembling like the fabric of a kite. Her from Queensborough Road to her little Bui soon she asked me, "Will you breath went out with a great laugh. house in the gentrified East End. things live here again, China?" r r Wrencve she was ti ed. she couid were ve.-y simple. For forty-eight hours "You know it's all I want," I said. perch like bird. "I it!" a loved she told all she would do was wail and sob and She warned: "I'm not promising any- it!" me. "Oh, I loved throw up on me. She refused to eat, thing."

How can you be so jealous of a she couldn't bear to If sleep. she "I don't I want you to," said. I said: "I dream? dropped off for ten minutes, she would just want you to need me for some-

I said: "It if sounds as you won't wake stent for the instant it took her to thing."

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SATIRE BY ERIC JAY DECETIS " -. ,-,. oio Sep:e'-oer we were as where he hac wourded he r as bacly ore-ducts c;f new geretc -esearcn te

i awkward as children. We didn't quite as anywhere else :o d myself I and from Eastern Europe. If was to know what to say. We didn't quite know couldr': heal her mere, only allow her :a

neai I what to. do with one. another. We could to use me 10 hefsefl. kets the'-e, dedced I would need an

see- it would take time and patence. At the start of something so Tggiie office. rather shyiy, We shared the bed ana :ne worst mistake you can make s to "Let's go to Budapest,' I said to showed one another quite ordinary say what you hope. But inside your Isobel. tongs as gifts. heart you can't help speaking, and by She hugged my arm.

7 "Look!" that speecn you have alrcacy olowr it. "Will there be ice on the Danube?' : Sunshine fell across Ihs brsak ast she said.

(I table, onto lilies and pink napery. am After Isobel and I mcved down to Lon- "There will." not making this up.) don from Stratford, busiress began to There was. ; "Look!" take up most o my time. Out of ar in- "China, we came all the way to

A grey cat nosed ouj of a doorway sure: ve caution, i drcpoed the word Hungary!" in London E3. "mecical" "rem :ne comoany descrip- She had never beer cu: of 3ritain,

"Did you have a nice weekend?" tion and callec myse f si'" o y Hose Ser- She had never fiowr ir an ao-oolane. "It lovely Lovely." delighted was a weekend. vices. Rose Services seen became She was even by The hotel. I "Look." twenty ou'ck vans, some low-cos: stor- had booked us mtc a pace calleo :he

:: r Canary Wharf, shiring in tne oo que age scans, ano a iicence tc ca ry the Palace or Rakoczi S:reet. I ke tne c ty evening light! In ou f eanifis- nays '.ogetber, while

sne was still work ng a: the aerod-ome.

I had watched with .almost uncontain- able delight as she moved about a It's room. I had stayed awake while she whaffou don't know

slept, so that I could prop myself up on one elbow and 'ook at her and shiver that will surprise you.

with happiness. Now when I watched,

i! was wi-h fear. For her. For both of us. She had come down off the tightrope for awhile. But things were still so pre- cariously ba a need. Her new bocy was all soft new colours in the bedside lamplight. She was thin now, and s-iaped quits differently: but as hot as

ever, hot as a child with fever. When I fuc

gers to be carried away. I didn't dare let her see how much this meant to me. Who sweeps Neither of us knew what to want of the other anymore. We had forgotten one the alligators off another's rhythms. In addition she was the runway? reme~bering someone else's: it was Alexander who had constructed for me ; first ; See, for the this bundle of hot. thin, hollow bones, time, what it really wraoped round me in the night by de-

sires and demands I didn't yet know takes to get the how to fulfill. Before the Miami treat- shuttle up and back. ments she had loved me to watch her as she became aroused. Now she needed to hide, at least for a time. She SUNDAY would pull at my arms and shot, ders, shy and desperate at the same time; NOVEMBER 13

then, as soon as I understood that she wanted so be fucked, push her face 9PMET/PT

into the s'de of mine so I couldn't look at her. After awhile she would turn onto her side; encourage me to enter from behind; stare away into some distance implied by us. our failures, the dark room. I told myself I didn't ca'e f sne DiJjjfjuerv was thinking of him, Jus; so ong as J she had go: this ar, which was far enough to begin to be cured in her sex itse.f, ;he Pa ace had -ny once been some- splash -ace. no:r ng came out of it, At breakfast she hardly spoke. All

thing: it now was a dump. Bare flex I stood there in the dark for a moment, morning she was thoughtful and with- hung out of the light switches the I on swaying, while for it I waited to run. drawn. Bui wnen I suggested that we fourth-floor corridors, The wallpaper heard Isobel say reasonably: "It's a ws k down :o :hc Daruoe via :he Basil- charred had in elegant spirals above system fault." ica at St, Stephen's, cross over to Buda the corners o- the radiators. Every After a moment she sa.; d, "Oh no. and eat lunch, she seemed delighted morning in the famous Jugendstil no," in Oh such a quie:, sao voice that I The air was cold and clear. The Tees issrau'"an:, they served us watery or- wen: back to the bed and touched her were distinct and photographic in tne ange squash. The rooms vv-^rs loo no:. gently. bright pale February light. We stared Everytrrng else— coffee, food, water "Isobel. Wake up." out across the New City from the D:s- from the cold tap—was lukewarm. It She begar to whimper and throw ney-wh'te battlements of Fishermen's was never quiet, even very late at herself about, Bastion. "Those bridges!" Isobel said. nighl. Ambulances and police cars "The system's down," she thed to "Look at them in the sun!" She had warbled past. Drunks screamed sud- explain to someone. bought a new camera for the trip, a denly or made noises like animals. But "Isobel. Isobel." Pemax wi:h a mcLor-w; .nd and zoom our room had French windows opening "The system!" "I'm going to take a panorama." She onto a balcony with wrought-iron rati- "Isobel," eyed che distorteo reflection of the Bas- ngs, From there in the freezing air, we She woke uo and clutched at me. tion in the mirror-glass windows of me could look across a son of high court- She pushed her face blindly into my Hilton hotel. "Stand over there, China, I yard with one or two flakes of snow chest, She trembled, want one of you, too. No, there, you ailing into it, !he other at balconies and "China'' idiotl" Snow began to fall, in flakes :ne their lighted windows. Thai first It was February, a year or two after size of five-forint pieces. evening, Isobel loved it we had met. I didn't know it, but things "China!" "China, isn't it fantastic? Isn't it?" were already going wrong for her. Her For :he rest of the day—for the rest Then something happened to her in dreams had begun to waste her from of the holiday—she was as delighted

nsr sleep. I wouldn't have known, but I the inside. oy things as ever. Wo v sited the zoo, unbearably woke up not at 3:00 a.m., She said indistinctly: "I want to go ("Look! Owls!") We caught a train to sweating and dry-mouthed beneath back home." Szemendrc. We onoioc/apred one an- the peculiar fawn-fur blanket they give "Isobel. it was only a dream." other beneath the huge winged woman you to sleep under at the Palace. The "I couldn't fly," she said. at the top of the Gellert Hill. We trans- bathroom was even hotter than the She siared up at me in astonish- lated the titles of the newsstand paper- bedroom and smelled faintly of very ment. backs.

old I piss. When turned the tap on to "China, I couldn't fly." "What does this mean, 'Nacy Sec?""' —

" v cj know very weii what it means, cold came u.o off the water and Isabel," reached orto the bridge fc us. t was

;

I looked at my watch, as : we nad seer something move. We

I said: "It's time to eat." slopped oack. stra.ghl irlo tne rah'c "Oh no. Musi we?" which grinds all night acoss tne brcge Isobel hated Hungarian food. trom Buda into Pest. 'China." she would complain, "why "China!" I'ks everytninc go: crsamon it?"' "Be Careful!" But she loved the red .and grey You have to imagihe-this buses She loved the street signs, Two na'Ve and happy micd eclass TOTO LOTTO, HIRLAP. TRAFIK. She people embracing on a brclge. Caugnt 'oved Old Buda. ,-e::iee"'eo by tne snow: between tne n've' and the road, they wiite. c ean. proosrly p ctjresc.ie cm and shive' at one anotner. unable And she couldn't get enough of the to dialing... sn between identity and ge- Danube. ography, love and the need tc keep

"Leo*.. Cnina, t's ; uckng huge 1 Isn't warm.. it "L-cking huge?" 'Look at the speed of it." jrid; Tor

I said: at it." 01 f "Look the speed of . . thS Da r oecroc At midnight o,n our last day we

; stood in the exact cenfe o the E'zse- deep butter cet bridge, gaz nq north. Szonlendre China! Arei and Danube Bend were out [here somewhec lockeo in a Middle Eiro- oear ngnt stretching all the way ro

Czsct rJBtouatea. ico Hoes ike nuge ;y t her hands between mine. in pads raced towaro us the cs'k. Ycj II be okay when you get hor could hear them turning and dipping under one another, piling up briefly t London didn't seem to help. For admitted: r ourd the huge piers, josil no across tne wnole vast breadth of tne river as they 'jshed scutn No r^ver 's Lg:y allcr ca r < But the Danube doesn't care for anyone: w : tho.it warning the Medieval " "

tc denver something for me. How much had sne lie expected from the and sne wol d rep.y absently, as if I

I said: "Irs not far. Just across to Miami treatments? All I knew was that nacn't sook.en: ,: ?'"cok G'een. Some clinic. she hao flown out obsessed a-io "£- like "Because I want us to each

I oassec ner the details. d ill. When she :5'kec, she would other again."

"A Dr. Alexander. You could make it my about tne 'light home. "I could And then ado, presenting her back in an hour, there and back." i SLrnse met tne wing of the air- to the mirror and cc-;ing at herself over stared She at me. red and geld I was trying hard to one shoulder:

it in "You could make an hour," she a boo*, dji I couldn't stoo look ng "I wish I'd hao more done. My lags said. out at this cole wintery sunrise aoovo are sill, tco fat,"

She read the job sheet. the co.jds. It seemed to last for hours." If part of her was stiil trvinc t: - 9 " -'- "What do they do there she She stared at me as if she had just bac< f-om Miami and all Mianv s asked. of thought something. "How could I see

I irritably: said "How would I know? a sunnse. China? It was oark when wo Cosmetic medicine. Fantasy factory lanced!" stuff. Does it matter?" Her dreams had always drawn her J She put her arms round me. away rom cc r,ay things All that gen-

:: I trying "China, was only to be inter- -:, war;- Beptem:;^:- :-nc; wa ; "ryiig to ested." get back. "Never ask them what they dc with "Do you h'ke me again 7 '' she would

the stuff," I warned her. "Will you do it?" ask shyly.

:! She saic: "If you kss me prope-y It was hard -or her tc say what she

"How was it?" I asked when she got meant. Standing in front of the mirror in back. the morning in the soft grey slanting v She laughed. light from tne bec cc™- wndow. dazed

"At first they thought 1 was a patient! and sidetracked by her own narcis- Running upstairs tc change, she sism, she could only repeat: "Do you called down: ke me tnis way?"

"I quite like West London." Or at night in bed: Is it good his 7 way Is t —gooc? What does it fee .ike?" Isobel's new body delighted her. But "Isobel sne see-ec' oemusec tco. as if it had r [t-.e ere it was always easier !o et 3 house and slept an hoi been g'ven to someone else. How her evade the issue.

"I much had Alexander Dromisec- her? never stopped liking you," I would ' "

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ii the wncscresn ciertly could fee! it '7r v/as never what you thought " l'e-be. much as she used to do, be- has jjsi aiver me the most beautifu was. acke:. wraooed r brtncay cape- bne Appalled by the - directress, aston- *;. ! - f I ears across tfiffi tabe. -pench Con sne:: :i -yse so oassive. wou c tneatre," nection. Cr -ij s~a-t. Tne wait struggle awake f-om d'eam;S Ike th.s -II take you :c re I said: Ver -< " YMii'na re: Godot Dc you want to see resses .;,rc ce e = •& a'e love's :- -:;: Wnai am I going to dc° What

I It t I :c a: eary tne -i reworks? I said: "I brought you a auoh delisted \ as try on. But later am going cc?" was ways ."

i I; Grey gnt silhouet- present— when toy a red rose and offer it tc was always cod. A Monsoon dress. Two small stone sobel, sne says. "What use Would ted a vase of dried [lowers or me win- birds for tne garden: anemones: and a nave for that?' in a voice, of such con d-eeser in f'ent cf the uncurtained

rself still dark. I cheap Boots nailbrush shaped like a tempt 1 begin to cry. In the dream, 1 am dow, out the rem was Thinking wol.ic turn over, 50 years old that day. 1 wake look at "v waxh. ana "Deri '',' lo ao" so clcse. '._,' "..- everything is finished, go bac< to S:eep One morning, in re

1 ' she said. "Please. week oefrre Christmas, I got up a" : ". Trior Ra-rcz oackeo a bag insteao. I mace myse 1 saio: iust wan; to oe somemrig Budaper. bu- bf-r

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i it, can: do I that." By Christmas we were snouting at J ;.'.'-: _.<:.-; ore anothe- agan late into the night, I sac Yc ec rg sure in ne'd have you. Three months later it eve-y night. I sept on the 'urn the spene room ~nere I coaled oi iscoel was you crying,— not me." and woke sweating. paper doily drifts to the flex "China ADVERTISEMENT

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J illage of Karubi DEPUTY bomb o am.i-Casirc gro.ip El Pode- < excicdcs n IV a-'i. The next cares em with its streets of tidy brick CHAIRMAN OF THE ybedy /.as cead- WORLD'S ch ere men under the FOREMOST PRIVATE sh;=de ch— killed in a utron bombs, INVESTIGATIVE . AGENCY, JENKINS IS THE GLOBAL s Tutsi EXPERT ON TERROR- c -Hi ated them, ISM AND £ A decade ac 3 at :ne Rand ITS IMPACT ON OUR ; Corporation thi FUTURE. strategies. Briar world war. He c butiheirstent-y PHOTOGRAPHS BY | inch cards reac ROBERT SEBREE from far-off places. One day in the global vil- Art Institute of Chicago. When his father, an lage square, ex".remis".s appeared as a kind of entrepreneur, suffered from bad business, Brian theater, In the role of desperadoes, they held EARING and his parents climbed into the Ford station guns to the heads of innocent people. They wagon with all they owned and headed to LABELS LIKE 'SOFT' told stories of torment and abuse, and de- Phoenix. Jenkins fondly remembers driving manded retribution. Terrorist theater in Beirut OR 'TRAITOR,' with his father through Arizona and New Mex- commanded a TV audience in New York, Lon- TERRORIST LEADERS ico selling transistor radios. don, and Peoria. "An attack in one place would ARE SOME- School often bored Jenkins. Each time he overnight inspire a similar act in another part into trouble TIMES VIRTUALLY got a counselor pushed him up a of the world," says Jenkins, "The Third World semester. He graduated from high school at War had begun as a hundred little wars." BLACKMAILED 15„entering UCLA as a gifted student. A Ful- Terrorists murdered airline passengers at TO ESCALATE THE bright fellowship took him to Guatemala City to Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, and gunned down ath- VIOLENCE research a doctorate on the nature of conspir- letes at the Munich Olympics. Shocked State acy. The High Command of Colonels had just Department officials asked for "that guy at BY DOMINATING overthrown the government. There were

Rand." When asked how embassy personnel THUGS. AS bombings in the streets and guerrillas in the should respond if kidnapped, Jenkins inter- FOUNDER OF AN hills. Culling old news clips for names of viewed ex-hostages to find out. While aca- EXTREMIST ringleaders of past coups, Jenkins found some demics proposed theories on the psychology were listed in the phone book. He went to see of terrorism, Jenkins, using systematic analy- GROUP, HOW CAN them. He was arrested twice by government sis of real histories, created a science of ter- YOU RETAIN authorities who were .curious about this rorism. Each terrorist act, each "dot" forming CONTROL IF YOU gringo's activities. Jenkins' picture of the world, emerged from In 1965, he joined the Green Berets. Rising SEEM LESS some conflict. Observing every war, at about to the rank of captain, he served in Vietnam incident 5,000, he detected a new trend. Ter- EXTREME THAN THE where he was decorated on several occasions rorism was getting more vicious. In 1984, he NEWCOMERS? for valor in combat, In Southeast Asia, he met predicted that in the next century implacable researchers from Rand. On leaving the army, he foes would fight endless wars filled with atroc- joined them, Jenkins was soon briefing Con- ities. When the Soviet Union fell, other ana- gress and advising the likes of Kissinger, lysts offered their visions of the world after the Inman, and Shultz—going to the front line Cold War, Jenkins has already seen it. whenever terrorists struck. After 17 years, he Born in Chicago in 1942, Jenkins, was five chaired Rand's political science department, when he first fought rival foughs in the street; fearing his appointment to a front office job, he was seven when he attended the renowned "where I'd sit at a desk and talk government 78 OMNI Living with the antediluvian.

Twenty miles of Indian Ocean and eight thousand years isolate Barrow Island from the whole of Australia. On that red spit of clay dwell some of the world's most curiously evolved and protected creatures. Dwarf kangaroos. Eight-foot-lone lizards. Pocket-sized bandicoots. And, sharing the island with them, a partnership of more than two hundred oil workers. Strange caretakers, perhaps. Yet their strict environmental efforts have even received a special award of excellence from the government. 4 Do people tread gently so the oddest of nature can roam free? ..

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contracts, a fate worse than death," pected anarchists set off explosives in wall. It requires going after the terrorists Jenkins laments. a horse-drawn wagon parked on Wall and taking their groups apart. So Jenkins went to work for Kroll As- Street. When dealing with a statfsfically Omni: Will the World Trade Center sociates who, with offices around the rare event, the level of security is more bombing make domestic terrorist at- world, investigates fraud, espionage, subjective. Perceptions are as impor- tacks more likely? theft of trade secrets, computer crime, tant as statistics; catastrophes capture Jenkins: Probably, but we don't know and hostile takeovers. One client, the our attention. The odds that an Ameri- by how much. The history of terrorism new government of Russia, wanted can will die in a car are one in 5,000. only tells us a second act is more likely help recovering in some of the billions The odds of being murdered are about than the first—whether it be a second stolen by corrupt officials. Deputy one in 12,000, and those of being killed airline hijacking or a second car bomb- Chairman Jenkins flies 300, 000. miles a by a terrorist are less than one in 100 ing. Historically, while seeing Ameri- year overseeing Kroll's crack crisis million. But that doesn't mean we can cans abroad as fair game, terrorists management team, responding to kid- ignore the threat. We still had to try to around the world have always distin- nappings, extortion cases, product protect the World Trade Center. An- guished between the government and tamperings, sabotage, and terrorist other catastrophic bombing could shut the people. When TWA Flight 839 was campaigns. In February 1993, when a it down. The media and world were hijacked in 1985, while the terrorists in bomb thundered through the parking watching to see what would emerge. A Lebanon were threatening to kill Ameri- garage of the World Trade Center, the castle with a moat? This is a free soci- can hostages, one terrorist even in-

Port Authority called in Kroll to help ety; we were not going to turn it into a quired about how he might get a green cope with the crisis and make the fortress. We've tried to take steps that card to live in the United States. There property secure again. are enough of a deterrent to persuade was an apparent reluctance to carrying Jenkins now works in a gleaming the next group to take their car bomb terrorism to America. The attack on the Los Angeles skyscraper, wears a dark down the street. World Trade Center broke that taboo. suit, and iooks like a corporate execu- That sounds cynical, but physical Omni: Why the World Trade Center? tive. But really he's still a scholar on an measures don't reduce terrorism—they Jenkins: It was a landmark, a symbol, adventure.—Paul Bagne only move the threat along. Society and therefore a suitable venue for a

cannot invest enough resources to pro- dramatic attack, it was also vulnerable. Omni: How can you make a facility like tect everything, everywhere, all the Terrorist attacks are staged for drama. the World Trade Center more secure? time. Someone wanting to set off a They want to cause the most alarm, so Jenkins: It begins with an analysis of bomb in Manhattan to kill scores of they go after symbols. But they must the threat and evaluation of the risk people can do it. And reducing terror- also consider feasibility. "Gee, we which isn't easy. The last bombing of ism has nothing to do with access con- could blow up the Statue of Liberty, but this magnitude was in 1920 when sus- trol or how thick you make the concrete we can't get a car full of explosives out there." One target doesn't have a garage. Another, target doesn't have a parking space. At the United Nations

they can't get through the gate. If I had my way, all car bombs would go off in subgrade parking. Had that bomb gone off at that hour in any of the crowded downtown streets, hundreds of people might have been killed. Omni: Why do you think we fear terror- ism so much? Jenkins: Terrorists choreograph vio- lence to create an atmosphere of fear in which people will exaggerate the strength of the terrorists. People at-

tribute great seriousness to it and alter their behavior. They cancel airline trips or support draconian measures to stop

it. But the reactions go beyond the threat. Something else is going on. Condensed into an act of terrorism are other anxieties, like the fear of nuclear holocaust or muggings. Look at the outpouring of literature on terrorists with "the bomb." They've never had one, yet here the two fears are brought together, And in our books and movies

is the wild-eyed Muslim, rooted in 2,000 years of history: armies of Persia march- ing against democracy in Athens, Mus- lims killing Christian children in the Crusades, artwork of women in chains, sailors held by Barbary pirates. To the TV screen from the Middle East came im- ages of hostages with guns to their heads, villains like Qacldafi. Ayatollah bomb will go off somewhere in Latin pravity of this society." Conversations

Khomeini. Saddam Hussein. Then America on July 26, the anniversary of are fervent; you slam your fist on the Mahmud Abouhalima and his gang of the Cuban Revolution, like a greeting table. You burn with rage. You decide

bombers; Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind card. I doubt the date of the Trade you're willing to go beyond talk and do and bearded sheik. Such images Center bombings had any magical something. But you'll need help. A bit awaken deep-rooted fears. meaning. What brought together of them testing goes on. Maybe you and I is terrorist? Omni: Who a and gave them a sense of mission held protest signs at Ndsair's trial or Jenkins: Not the serial killer, the drive- were fheir religious views, their support prayed at the same mosque or trained shooter; by not the employee who gets of Muslims fighting" the Soviets in together to fight in Afghanistan. This fired and returns to the post office with Afghanistan, and the trial of their com- gives you confidence I won't call the an assault rifle. Terrorism is not irra- rade El Sayyid Nosair for the murder of cops. You take me aside and say, "We tional violence. Not that terrorists think Rabbi MeirKahane, must do something." Now we are slid- as you or I, but they have their own ter- Immigrating to vastly a different cul- ing into conspiracy. I say, "My cousin rible logic. Their actions are calculated ture, they also faced prejudice, deri- will come in on this." You say "so will to create an of fear atmosphere and sion, isolation. They reacted by hurtling my good friend." And it begins to grow. alarm force to social or political change. themselves into religious-political fer- It is an intimate and fragile thing.

. We have laws against the things terror- vency. What must it be like for a devout Maybe one person in your circle leaves ists do—murder, kidnapping, arson. Muslim to come to a city like New York? the room whenever there is talk of tak- They sometimes claim to be above One is regularly insulted just being ing action. He will be assessed as these laws as soldiers at war. Yasser there. Abouhalima drove a cab, with someone to leave out of the conspir- Arafat once said that no one who stands cars cutting him off, people shouting acy. Maybe whenever you say "some- for a just cause is a terrorist. But we do obscenities. They saw nudity on bill- thing must be done," Abdul shouts, "All not define a terrorist by his cause; we boards, rampant materialism. To some- of them should be blown up!" Ah, know him by the quality of his act. one with their beliefs, such imager and there's someone to approach. Omni; The World Trade Center bomb- attitudes daily mocked their religion This is a self-selecting group of ing was on the anniversary date of our and culture. They wanted to strike out angry, action-oriented people. Most first air attack -of Desert Storm. One ana- against a society they loathed. core members-are true believers. Then lyst said it shows the Gulf War is still Omni; How is the immigrant trans- others come in for membership itself. on—for Muslims. formed into a terrorist? Like in street gangs, an army unit, peo- Jenkins: At Rand, we were once asked Jenkins: Terrorism begins with a con- ple join to participate, to wear the col- to find all dates of significance to vari- spiracy. And a conspiracy. begins as ors. Their ideological grounding may ous groups. Well, the calendar is com- talk. "How did these clowns become be lower than the founders', but their

pletely filled, I can guarantee you a the government?" "I can't stand the de- dedication to violence may be higher. It's. what the group does—the vio- lence—that attracts them. Finally the psychopaths, the thugs, join. For them

terrorism satisfies emotional needs. It is

a license to blow things up, to kill. Their

dedication to ideology is very low; their dedication to violence, high. The thugs begin to dominate decision-making. Fearing labels like "soft" or "traitor," the leaders are virtually blackmailed into escalating violence. As founder of a self-selected extremist group, how can

you retain control if you are seen as less extreme than the most extreme? Omni: The authorities cited the "witches brew" at the World Trade Cen- ter as evidence of their amateurism. Jenkins: That was just dangerous chemistry. They could have blown themselves up on the highway in New Jersey. Years ago someone published the Anarchist Cookbook that gave a recipe for making nitroglycerin on your

kitchen stove. I half-suspected the au-

thorities put it out to eliminate people

crazy enough to try it. They left finger- prints, took no internal security precau- tions, used their real names when renting the van. Found in their posses- sion were not only manuals on bomb making, but books about knives and martial arts. I've seen this peculiar fascination with all instruments of violence before. Hostages from terrorist kidnappings CO\'~NUED0NPAGE9S AfimnnATTER UFO UPDATE: Are UFO researchers using hypnosis to manufacture memories in abductees?

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be as thick as a C-5A transport, which I Our online board has also spon- have seen and flown in many times. sored a lively discussion on the type of The corners and sides were curved evidence required to prove that bona

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word: OMNI. Then click Antimatter. of lights. As I stood there with my in touch with alleged abductees. The Click Message Board. Click List Topics. mouth open, the craft traveled out of consensus can be summed up by this

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BOOK.) Posting on our board, a few about two miles away. For a long time, I gested, would come when, following readers have mentioned the so-called thought what I saw was the new Mach abduction, an alleged abductee could triangle "craft, recently witnessed over +6 reconnaissance plane that has deliver "advance information of an as- California- and elsewhere in the United flown near Beale for many years, but tronomical or physical nature, not States. "During the winter of 1992- on reflection, the craft was too thick (30 known to contemporary science but

1993, I was at Beale AFB, Marysville, to 50 feet) to travel at such speeds. checkable or verifiable ex post facto." California, and was in my backyard with Having worked with the SR71, I can To help us evaluate the evidence. my telescopes," explained one of our say I have never seen a craft like this, we have chosen a small but balanced online regulars. "I am an amateur as- and others here in the Sacramento Val- panel of experts (see sidebar). Be- tronomer with over thirty years' experi- ley have also seen the same type of cause we need people experienced at ence, and was also a trained photo craft in January and February of this UFO investigation, we have selected a intelligence specialist in all types of year. . . . Any ideas?" number of researchers allied with the systems. The date was around the third Since ideas are the currency Open UFO camp; all UFO researchers on our of March at about 10:30 p.m. Pacific Book trades in. online, our postees panel have been noted not only for

Standard Time. I had just walked out of have given us quite a few. For in- their field work, but also for the high my warm-up shed and was walking back stance, our online participants have quality of their skeptical work. To give to my telescopes about ten feet away helped us fine-tune our notion of what some credence to the other side of the when I noticec someihng Moating above is and what is not legitimate "proof." A realm, moreover, we have solicited the me, going from southeast to northwest. lew people pointed out. for instance, help of some noted skeptics. Intent on The craft was a triangle shape with two that radar, while an important tool, is policing the UFO field, these panel rows of lights going around the middle not valid as the only evidence of a members will help us make sure we on the two sides and was a light gray UFO. "Since radar is dependent upon never let down our guard. To provide on the bottom, possibly from the re- electromagnetic waves," we were told, background and expertise, we have re- flected lights of the housing area I lived "it may be easily distorted by other cruited experts in aerospace and mili- in. There was no sound of any type and electromagnetic waves that are man- tary craft. To shed some light on the hu- no sign of engines. The craft looked to -made or natural in origin." man mind, we have asked for help from 83 OMNI What is it Tfe© Aitat artists -Find so © ART CUMINGS jrvbngumg abovt a

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special panel, our own we I throw our stood on the pavement. When I hat into the ring. We have no way of ISOBELAVENS looked in through the uncurtained will find or if will knowing what we — we CONTINUED FROM ^V ground-floor window I could see the lit- find anything at all. We only know this: is d splay of lights on the front of Iso-

Any story we agree to look into must curfty gale. I was disappointed by him. be s CD player. provide plentiful evidence to analyze, He turned out to be a tall thin man, mid- Or this— dissect, and "explore. From our camp, dle-aged, grey-haired, dressed in a For a moment my keydidn't seem without such elements as multiple wit- light wool suit. He looked less like a tofitthe door. nesses, physical traces, medical docu- doctor than a poet. He' had that kind of Imagine this— mentation, or electromagnetic effects, fragile elegance some people maintain Late at night you enter a house in you have nothing at all. on the edge of panic, the energy of ten- which you've been as happy as any- In marking our place on the UFO sions unresolved, glassy, newer very far where in your life: probably happier. map, we evoke the trajectory of our from the surface. He would always You go into the front room, where near-namesake—the frustrated Project seem worried. He looked along the s~reet ight falls unevenly across the Blue Book—and iis leader, J. Allen street toward Shepherd's Bush, then rugs, the furniture, the mantelpiece Hynek himself. In the end, Hynek could down at his watch. and mirrors. On the sofa are strewn a

not to the I , use science unlock mystery opened the nearside passenger dozen colourful, expensive shirts, blue of the UFO, as he had planned. Near window. and red and gold like macaws and

life, the end of his ensconced in a grand "David Alexander?" I called. money Two or three of them have been

hacienda in the heart of Arizona's I called: "Waiting for someone?" slipped out of their cellophane, care- Quartz Mountain, he glimpsed a geo- He bent down puzzledly and looked fully refolded and partly wrapped— in graphic wonder: a mammoth slab of into the BMW. Christmas paper. "Dear China " say rock sculpted by nature to resemble a "Need a lift?" I offered. the tags. "Dearest China." There are

monk kneeling in prayer, In this gor- "Do I know you?" he asked. signs of a struggle but not necessarily

geous spot called Paradise Canyon, I thought: Say the wrong thing, you with someone else. A curious state Hynek discovered fervor in his calling. fucker. You're that close. smell fills the room, and a. chair has

Moved more by religion than reason, I said: "Not exactly." been knocked over. It's really too dark more by mysticism than science, Hynek "Then—" to see.

the investigator was finally swept away. "Forget it." Switch on the lights. Glasses and For him the dream had come to this: He stood back from the car sud- bottles. Food trodden into the best

"I've often said that someday, I would denly, and I drove off. kilim. Half-empty plates, two days old. enjoy being snowbound on the rocky "Isobel? Isobel!"

coast of Maine," he told Omni. "I imag- Christmas. Central London. Traffic The bathroom was damp with con- ine myself in front of the fireplace, keep- locked solid every late afternoon. Light densation, the bath itself full of cold

ing my friends entertained for many in the shop windows in the rain, Light in water smelling strongly of rose oil. Wet nights, with one interesting UFO tale the puddles. Light splashing up round towels were underfoot, there and in the I'd after the next. enjoy being given the your feet. I couldn't keep still. Once I'd draughty bedroom, where the light was

chance, as long as the food held out. walked away from Isobel, I couldn't already on and Isobel's pink velvet cur-

But now, at the. cusp of the twenty- stop walking. Everywhere 1 went, She's tains, half-drawn, let a faint yellow trian- first century, the busboy has come and Always a Woman was on the radio. gle of light into the garden below. The

cleared the it's ft food away. In a sense, Harrods, Habitat, Hamleys: Billy Joel lower sash was open. When I pulled sad: Who can deny an attraction to the drove me out onto the wet pavement down, a cat looked up from the empty

stories? After all, from a literary per- with another armful of children's toys'. I flowerbed: ran off. 1 shivered. Isobe spective, UFO yarns can now unequiv- even wrapped some of them— had pulled all her favourite under- ocally take their place among the wooden penguin with rubber feet, two clothes out onto the floor and trodden greatest ghost stories and science-fic- packs of cards, a miniature jigsaw puz- mascara into them. She had written in tion stories of our time. No doubt about zle in the shape of her name. Every lipstick on the dressing table mirror, in

it, from the tragicomic plight of the time I saw something I liked, it went perfect mirror writing: "Leave me closet abductee and her frail, half- home with me. alone."

human "hybrid" heirs to the ominous "I bought you a present," I imagined I found her in one of the big blanket

stalwart burea.jcra: wno keeps crashed myself saying, "this fucking little spider boxes. alien saucers and bodies under lock that really jumps When I opened the lid a strange and key, magnificent UFO stories, rich "Look!" smell—beeswax, dried roses, vomit,

in social commentary and psychologi- Quite suddenly I was exhausted. whiskey—filled the room. In there with

cal truth, abound. The heroes of these Christmas Day I spent with the things her she had an empty bottle of Jame- tales, be they missing nurses or pale I'd bought. Boxing Day, and the day after son's: an old safety razor of mine and

hybrid children lost forever to the world that, I lay in a chair staring at the televi- two or three blades. She had slit her

of love, have become mythological sion, Between shows I picked up the wrists. But first she had tried to shave

symbols for our time. We will continue phone and put it down again, picked it all the downy, half-grown feathers from

to listen to their cries. it is also it But now up and put down. I was going to call 'ner upper arms and breasts. When 1 time to move on. Kicking and scream- Isobel, then I wasn't. I was going to call reached into the box they whirled up ing, we must let loose our grip on these her, but I closed the connection care- round us both, soft blue and grey, the riveting, best-loved allegories and em- fully every time the phone began to ring palest rose-pink. Miami! In some con-

brace the evidence, leaving literary at her end. Then I decided to go back fused attempt to placate me. she had conceits behind. to S:eoney for my clothes. tried to get out of the dream the way On this cautious note, and in hopes Imagine this you get out of a coat.

of'finding some answers, our investiga- Two a.m. The house was quiet. She was still alive. tion begins.00 Or this— "China," she said. Sleepily, she held 92 OMNI her arms up to me. She whispered: game of Whitechapel. The city loomed We were on Hammersmith Gyatory,

"China." up then fell back from us at odd an- deep in the shadow of the flyover. It

if it Alexander had made her look like a gles, as had achieved the topologi- was twenty minutes since I had found bird. trick But underneath the cal of Vorticist painting. I cosmetic values a her. We were nearly there. I could al- she was still Isobel Avens. Whatever he could hear the engine distantly, making most see the clinic. had promised her, she could never a curious harsh overdriven whine as I I said: "Shit, Isobel, I've lost it." have flown, i picked her up and carried held the revs up against the red line. The piers of the fl/over loomed

her carefully down the stairs. Then I Revs and brakes, revs and brakes: if above us, stained grey concrete plas- was crossing the pavement toward the you want to go fast in the city you hold tered with anarchist graffiti and torn

BMW, throwing the nearside tront door it all the time between the engine and posters. Free and ballistic, the car open and trying to get her into the pas- the brakes. Taxis, hoardings, white waltzed sideways toward them, glad to senger seat. Her arms and legs were faces of pedestrians on traffic islands be out of CI" ra Rose's hands at last. pivoting with everywhere, loose and awk- splashed halogen pink, rushed up "Fuck," I said. "Fuck fuck fuck." ward from the hips and elbows. "Christ, and were snatched away. We touched the kerb, tripped over

Isobel, you'll have to help!" I didn't "Isobel?" our own feet, and began a long slow panic until then. I had too much to do to look directly roll, like an airliner banking to star-

"China," whispered Isobel. at her. I kept catching glimpses of her board. We hit a postbox. The BMW

Blood ran into my shirt where she in weird, neon shop-light from Wallis or jumped in a startled way and righted it- had put her arms round my neck. Next or What She Wants, lolling against self. Its offside rear suspension had

I slammed the door. the seat belt with her mouth half open. collapsed. Uncomfortable with the new

"China." She knew how bad she was. She kept layout, still trying to get away from me,

"What, love? What?" trying to smile across at me. Then she it spun twice and banged itself repeat- "China." would drift off, or cornering forces edly into the opposite kerb with a

She could talk but she couldn't hear. would roll her head to one side as if sound exactly like some housewife's

"Hold on," I said. I switched on the she had no control of the muscles in Metro running over the cat's-eyes on a radio. Some station I didn't know was her neck and she would end up staring cold Friday morning. Something playing the first few bars of a Joe Satri- and smiling out of the side window snapped the window post on that side ani track, Always with You, Always with whispering: "China. China China and broken glass blew in all over Iso-

Me. I felt as if I was outside myself. I China." bel Avens' peaceful face. She opened thought: "Now's the time to drive, "Isobel." her mouth. Thin vomit came out, the China, fucker." you The BMW seemed She passed out again, and didn't colour of tea: but I don't think she was to fishtail out of the parking space of its wake up. conscious. Hammersmith Broadway,

I own accord, into the empty arcade- "Shit, Isobel," said. ninety-five miles an hour. I dropped a gear, p eked the car up between steer- ing and accelerator, shot out into Queensborough Road on the wrong side of the road. The boot iid popped

open and fell off, It was dragged along

behind us for a moment, then it went backward quickly and disappeared.

"China." Draped across my arms, Isobel was

nothing but a lot of bones and heat. I carried her up the steps to Alexander's building and pressed for entry. The en- tryphone crackled but no one spoke.

"Hello?" I said. After a moment the locks went back. Look into the atrium of a West Lon- don building at night and everything is

the same as it is in the day. Only the re- ception statf are missing, and that makes less difference than you would think. The contract furniture keeps working. The PX keeps working. The fax comes alive suddenly as you watch, with a query from Zurich, Singa- pore, LA. The air conditioning keeps on working. Someone has watered the plants, and they keep working too, making chlorophyll from the overhead lights. Paper curls out of the fax and stops. You can watch for as long as you like: nothing else will happen and no one will come. The air will be cool and warm at the same time, and you will be able to see your own reflection, very faintly in the treated glass. together."

"China." He lifted his hands. "I can't," he

Upstairs it was a floor of open-plan said. offices— health finance—and then a "Put her back together," floor of consulting rooms. Up here the "This is only an office," he said. lights were off, and you could no longer "She would have to go to Miami."

hear the light traffic on Queensborough I pointed to the telephone. I said:

It Road. was 2:50 in the morning. I got "Arrange it. Get her there." into the consulting rooms and then He examined her briefly. Alexander's office, and walked up and "She was dying anyway," he said. down with Isobel in my arms, calling: "The immune system work alone would "Alexander?" have killed her. We did far more than No one came. we would normally do on a client. Most

"Alexander?" of it was illegal. It would be illegal to do

Someone had let us in. most of It to a laboratory rat. Didn't she

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doesn't anything. I will astound you. change compare inadequacies with him. said: "Press 9," he advised me. "Then call "I don't want to hear this." 'A hair raising story of horrifying "She'll if it intensity." an ambulance." He shrugged. die we try He glanced down at Isobel. He again," he said emptily. "You've got no said: "It would have been better to take idea how these things work." her straight to a hospital." "Put her back together." None of the possible answers is

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ing sexual arousal simulate the side- End in May, driving all the way from once vacated the dream. The moment sweep, swoop, and mad fall of mating Heathrow down the inside lane of the she closed her eyes, feathers were

flight, the frantically beating heart, long motorway, as slowly and carefully as I floating down past them. She knew

sight. Sometimes the touch of her own knew how in my new off-the-peg 850L I what she wanted. Don't mistake me: I

feathers will be enough. had adjusted the driving mirror so I wanted her to have it. But imagining could look into the back of the car. Isa- myself stretched out next to her on the

I it lived in a hotel on the beach while bel lay awkwardly across one corner of bed night after night, I could hear the

was done. Miami! TV prophecy, humid- the rear seat. Her hands and face sound those feathers made, and I

ity like a wet sheet, an airport where seemed tiny. In the soft wet English knew I would never sleep again for the they won't rent you a baggage trolley. light, their adjusted bone structures touch of them on my face. DO You wouldn't think this listening to Bob looked more rather than less human. Seger. Unless you are constantly ap- Lapped in her singular successes and First published in Little Deaths, edited

proaching it from the sea, Miami is less failures, the sum of her life to that point, by Etlen Datlow (Millennium, United

a dream— less even a nightmare—than she was more rested than I had ever Kingdom).in September 1994.

a place. All I remember is what British seen her. people always remember about About a mile away from the house,

Florida: the light in the afternoon storm, outside Whitechapef tube station, I let >• Chris the extraordinary size and perfection of the car drift up to the kerb and stop. I

the food in the supermarkets. I never switched the engine off and got out of Ob in ski: page 4: Rosemary W

went near the clinic, though I tele- the driving seat. Ae'cspace Sysieris; G-eup; page 14: Dairyl Ttxck- k!>/~ciy b:oiv: Wc-id'.vldy page IS: Advenh phoned Alexander's team every morn- "It isn't far from here," I said. !.: .;!; " PlK.ip ps'lP cl) I: MiLT.; p£7fi -- ing and evening. I was too scared. One I put the keys in her hand. p.s-;;i; 2-t 'jyjyi ! : :i'::'y\M:c.

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G-o.ii-: Is';: Lr. &. Ed;:orsi weren't. In the end I knew they had got want you to drive yourself the rest of page 30. Resources: involved again, they were excited by the way." page 30, rig.it: O =a Sp ece, page 32: Alan -•-.^i.-.K-.-,- pags jb: n'sn '. .;-,-: r. ":-.;. Sipne; p the possibilities. to She was going have She said: "China, don't go. Get 37, top: Dave Suvinski; page 37, botti what she wanted. They were going to back in the car." ricilsi..' sr: rgi-.vii pace 38- Ste.-* :.,7sl!; page

Lilt" i so-i/~io"y if to;): A! Slono; page 40. bottom: Bu- do the best they could for her, only "It's not far from here," I said. cmu rLcrrialiy-is dps Folds ::<. .Vosorp page 52. because of the technical challenge. "China, please don't go." left: Doi is Gregory; page 52, right: Douglas Cur-

She slipped in and out of the world "Drive yourself from now on." 55. Is-t: Doujas Cut?- page 53. mid-

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and in the end I was able to bring her else 1 could have done. All that time in OKtom G.;i!-V ed Isnweir home to the blackened, gentle East Miami she had never let go, never Have You Lived BEING THERE CONTINUED FROM PAGES! TOWING JEHOVAH Before? BY JAMES MORROW Wings will employ the PSE 3-D sound Review by Wheeler sparingly, primarily to voice Henri's Andrew though:? as he waraers :rvough the icy Morrow's last novel, Only landscape. Although .the sounduack Begotten Daughter, was about work hadn't yet begun at press time', but, this time, Saunders predicts that Sheffer will per- God's daughter, he haps whisper into the ear-mounted mifeSS turns his attention to the senior

while circling the head to create the il- member of the trinity: God the lusion of thoughts someone's coming Father. This God is indeed dead as : from everywhere and nowhere at once. Nietzsche said. His two-mile-long Impossibly crisp images eight sto- corpse fell from Heaven and is cur- ries high, so real you reach out to touch them, three-dimensional sound that rently floating in the mid-Atlantic. seems to come from inside your The Archangel Gabriel tells Captain head—they're certainly technologies Anthony Van Home (despondent advances over current moviemaking since his ship caused the biggest methods, but are they the future of film, oil spill in history) he has the job of as sound and color were so many towing God to an Arctic tomb pre- years ago? Annaud firmly believes so. pared by the angels. Overseeing "I still think it's impossible that in twenty

years, people will still go to see movies the journey is Father Thomas

on a screen that's not much better than Ockham from the Vatican. And if television," he maintains. "Because you think it's going to be a simple even bad television is going to be so job, well, you don't know Morrow. much better. Movie theaters will have to A group of dedicated atheists want offer a wider screen with more defini- to destroy this one irrefutable proof tion," whether it's IMAX orone of its competitors on the wide-screen front. that God did exist and hire a cadre

Theaters, studios, and filmmakers all of WW II reenactors to attack the play pivotal, interdependent roles in holy corpse, the crew of Van determining the future of wide-format Home's ship mutiny after a particu- films. Owners must decide thai building Explore Lhis and olher intriguing larly nasty shipwreck, and I won't a huge, expensive IMAX-scale theater topics tl-ro;,gi" the .^osicucisri 'i?ac:i ngs even mention what happens when ~~ese iime-hcnoied studies give access (all of the competing wide-screen for- lo the accurrLlEied knowledge of history's mats require supersize theaters as they run out of food. oreatss; -eaciers in -lie form or oraotioa. well) is worth their while, which it won't Morrow is typically dazzling

I lessons and exercises mailed to your be unless there is a good selection of here; what would be a tasteless quality wide-screen films to show. It's up joke in the hands of another writer The Rosicrucian Order it a vjorld- to studios—many of which are in the wide educational and philosophical ; (God is dead—and you should see : theater business themselves, Ike Sony, organizalion. II is not a religion, and does the corpse!) instead informs a i not require a specific code of belief or which owns the Loew's theater chain, now called Sony Theatres—to grsen iyht debate about the place of both Tool e free introductory those films and to persuade top name man and God in the world. He's klet ab( directors such as Annaud to make simply one of the best writers d :he co.ioon below or; them. Will all the pieces fall together? working today: a keen observer of

cat! toll-free "What I see onscreen is just so ex- all humanity's foibles and a master

citing that I would take it as a personal 800-882-6672 satirist. But, unlike most satirists. failure if tomorrow doesn't see more No one will call on you. and more IMAX 3-D theaters around he has a soft spot in his heart for the world," Annaud insists. But as a the poor humans that populate his like w learn more about the student of the history of technology, he books, and that's what really sets also recognizes that there are many him apart. Towing Jehovah is not forces at work here, "it's fabulous to see just funny and thought-provoking the enormous resistance to an inven- (though it certainly is both), it's tion by the establishment," he muses. ''Bui when the compass was invented, genuinely touching. He even man-

it changed navigation. When printing ages to end on a note of hope.

was invented, it led to the collapse of I wouldn't recommend it to the the church. These are the consequences. easily offended, but, for the rest of "There is nothing in the history of us, it's a real treat. Rosicrucian man where an invention makes it better qrder« Towing Jehovah is available in that it does not become the stardarc.

This is a fact. This is evolution. This is good book stores and from The transformation. "DO Science Fiction Book Cluh on p. 49. « «

lecture I or briefing give and says, "If I defended preferred targets iike s raorts ." IQJTERV/IEIAJ were a terrorist, I'd . . and lays out and embassies, so terrorists have

':': ".:-.:-|-i .. F-^Oi-.i T--GI. the most diabolical scheme. Armchair moved to softer targets like department terrorists can conjure up terrible things stores, public buildings, or crowded have told me their captors would get terrorists in the field have not done. streets. The Trade Center incident was out of bed, disassemble their weapons, Why? Because most terrorists impose but only one of 100 terrorist car bomb- clean, and oil them. In the afternoon constraints on themselves. Their vio- ings in 1993, in Florence, Bogota, they'd do it again. They are fascinated by lence is not an end in itself, but for ad- Lima, the financial district of London; in instruments of violence. In one case, kid- vancing a goal. Political terrorists Bombay, 300 people died from a car nappers introduced their hostage to believing they're the vanguard of the bomb in the street. the submachine gun that killed the people's will, use violence to shock, get The engine that drives armed con-

American ambassador as if it were alive. publicity, and leverage a government. flict in the next century will not be ideo-

Terrorists spend a lot of time fondling and They know if they act too horribly, they logical quarrels so much as religious talking about weapons. If you bugged may alienate their perceived con- and ethnic conflict. Most of the 30 armed their lampshade, you'd think they were stituents, create public backlash, or conflicts going on now are based on up to bombing nuclear plants or kid- provoke the police to crack down on religious or ethnic differences. This napping the Pope. It's mostly pretend- them—with popular support. The Irish type of conflict lends itself to atrocities. ing. These are amateurs. Republican Army receives political and the kind of violence seen in the slaugh-

Omni: But not harmless. financial support from people it doesn't ter of women and children in Rwanda, Jenkins: Exiremely dangerous. Inspired want to upset: When IRA members are the massacre of Palestinians in prayer by religious fervor, they have a man- about to set off a bomb in London, ihey at Hebron, the World Trade Center. date from God to dismiss constraints warn the police so people can get out Through the mouth of a sheik in a Jer- against using violence. The Trade Cen- of the way. Or at least they want to be sey City mosque, God says it is proper ter bombers didn't worry about offend- seen as providing warning. to kill infidels. God whispers in the ear ing their constituency—their constit- Omni: Will terrorism become increas- of a Jewish fanatic to gun down his en- uency was outside this world. This is ingly more deadly? emies. In an ethnic war, your death sanction-of-God stuff in their heads: Jenkins: Probably more large-scale, In- may be the very purpose of my strug-

The deaths were justified and they discriminate violence. That's a trend. gle. If you are not a member of my think it's six a shame only people died. The first bombings were extraordinary tribe, I consider you barely human. A Omni: A terrorist driven by political events, but the 400th bombing was just goat that gives milk is of more value. cause would not have done this? another bombing. Seeking to escalate Omni: What now, after the passing of Jenkins: A seemingly normal, nice per- the shock, terrorists are forced to set the Cold War? son always comes down after every off bigger bombs. Governments have Jenkins: For 40 years the threat of nu-

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Angola, Rwanda. be immune to it. This does not mean I experiment. A terrorist attack is not about Three months from now will be a new predict a sustained domestic cam- trying something new; it's about suc- set' of wars, mixing guerrilla, limited paign of terror. 1 don't think it's likely. ceeding. And they can do that by ex- conventional warfare, and terrorism, But for future terrorist spectaculars of ploding a bomb. We once tried to ana- unconfined by national borders. Bring- the "Koranic proportions" the Trade lyze why terrorists had attacked a certain ing their quarrels with them, floods of Center bombers envisioned—why not? bank and found they intended their refugees will spill into other countries. Omni: Why did car bombs become the bomb to go off somewhere else. Sup- Armies might stop fighting when the weapon of choice? pose the gang was headed for the World belligerents exhaust themselves or ex- Jenkins: When little bombs could no Trade Center with their bomb in the van ternal powers impose temporary longer get the world's attention; when and it went off in the Lincoln Tunnel. cease-fires. But in time hostilities will terrorists could no longer get close Who would know? It would be just as flare up again. The distinction between enough to targets with bombs hidden good! Show me a group that decides war and peace will dissolve. under their overcoats, they looked for a by committee, takes no chances, must

Omni: As an "island of order," will we way to make bigger explosions. Un- succeed, and always thinks it has—and be isolated from these, wars? able to carry around a half-ton of nitrate I'll show you a group that cannot innovate.

Jenkins: We're moving toward a world fertilizer and diesel fuel, they put it on Omni: Will terrorists acquire and use without borders. It's wishful thinking wheels. It's not high-tech, but almost advanced weapons? that all this conflict will stop at our anybody can make one. Innovations in Jenkins: To a kid with a hammer, the shores. On occasion it will slop over. terrorist weapons are few: homemade world's a nail. If a group acquires an

The strategic purpose of national bor- mortars, altimeters to set off- bombs in exotic weapon, it'll try to find a way to ders has always been to keep danger airliners, electronic timers for bombs use it. The United States gave the on the outside. The advent of nuclear set months before detonation. Bui Afghan rebels hundreds of Stingers, prec:-i=ion-guidec sjrfacs-to-ai:" m ssiles. that we can't get back. The Soviets handed out hundreds of heat-seeking missiles to their surrogates. Corrupt of- ficials and black marketeers are deal-

ing in these lethal, high-tech weaoors. The IRA, the Palestinians, and some guerrillas in Africa have them. They NEWS""" brought down a few civilian airliners. / We may see terrorists using more so- phisticated rocket launchers, mortars, and remotely piloted vehicles. Omni: Will they acquire weapons of mass destruction? Jenkins: You can find individual crazies in hospitals for the criminally insane who are quite willing to blow up the world, elaborately planning to do so in their cells. But how would some psycho- path get a nuclear or biological weapon? We're not talking about one bright lu-

natic in his garage. This is orders of mag- nitude more complex than getting a chemist to help make a car bomb. In the entire world only a handful of terror- ist groups are at this level of sophisti- cation. These organizations behave almost like a state. They make political decisions and have a degree of pru- dence. Terrorists most willing to carry out mass murder are the least capable. Those most capable are the least willing. Terrorists driven by religious or ethnic hatreds are probably willing to commit mass murder, as they may have no pur- —

a-ack oil'er :han to kill or day with a new demand and run the Just the thing for pose to an destroy. Abouhalima and his gang country with his device. But the gov- people who want to get would have used a nuclear bomb, but ernment will not liquidate itself. In the weather information they'd probably never get one. game we could never get it to work out

Omni: Is it more likely with the Soviet (or the terrorists. first hand! arsenal no longer under absolute control? Omni: Why wouldn't they set off a nu-

Jenkins: This is a legitimate concern. clear bomb? Scientists are desperate for money; Jenkins: They could, but for what pur- corrupt officials and organized orimi-" pose? In any case of extortion, the nals are smuggling weapons. In dis- purpose is to get something. In a mug- mantling warheads under arms control ging, the fellow wants the wallet. If he agreements, Russia itself is creating just shoots somebody, that's mindless

mountains of fissile material. If it or an murder. Terrorists can use a nuclear de-

actual weapon were to get into the vice to punish, set it off anytime. They black market, the environment would don't have to communicate with any- change. Four decades ago, the se- one to do that. In one of our games, the crets of making the bomb were held by terrorists did set off their device. They a few scientists, Today more people decided since they couldn't get any- have the theoretical knowledge, though thing, they'd just cause some damage. requested features into one incredible patkage! not the practical experience. It's im- Omni: So a terrorist can use a nuclear FEATURES INCLUDE: probable that an individual could make bomb to destroy but not to blackmail • Inside & • Compass Rose • Instant Metric Conversions ir io government. Outside Temps, wind Chill a device that works. • Wind Speed . Alarms " Optional PC Omni: A Red Army Faction terrorist in Jenkins: This fascinates me because Highs i Germany once said, "With a nuclear we are the superpower with the ulti- " terror. can't % Rainfall Option (0.01 or 0.2 mm) bomb we could make the Prime Minis- mate weapon of And we in world anything. Order today: ter dance on a table." make anybody the do It's reason they're a deterrent 1-800-678-3669 Jenkins: In that corner are boxes of for this novels. I've read about 100 to see how against their own use: "If you use 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pacific Trme • OM647J yours, we destroy you." The other side FAX i-5lQ.(,7O-0589 M/C and VI5A novelists solve problems we analysts -year warranty 30-dav monev-li.if k Juarantee can't. So far they haven't. Strategic says the same. Nuclear weapons are planners deal with unthinkable things in not useful as a coercive weapon for ter- DAVIS INSTRUMENTS war games. We applied the same gam- rorists or anyone. jjtj Pishln Ave.. H zfiriTj, CA S4545 ing techniques to better comprehend Omni: Will terrorists attack computer the dynamics of nuclear terrorism. We networks, the vulnerable nervous sys- engaged high government officials. In tem of modern society? some cases the role of secretary of Jenkins: In the realm of computer crime, state or secretary of defense was most crackers who break into the sys- played by the secretary himself. tem are simply demonstrating their skills. The government team set up an op- In some cases it's taken a more malev-

erations center, just as it would in real olent form: Some perpetrators have

life. The opposing team was made up personal motives, like revenge. Others of terrorism analysts. A third group, are mercenaries selling their skills for called the "control team," had mem- purposes of espionage or larceny. We bers playing leaders of other nations, don't find these villains of the informa- senators, newspaper reporters, the tion age in the ranks of today's terror- outside world. The game planners' ists. It's not a matter of terrorists moving opening move: "We have a nuclear into the domain of computer crime. Po- bomb set to go off in a city, and here's litically motivated hackers might move what we want." toward terrorism.— Other than opposition From the start it was apparent any to control "nobody owns the Net" terrorist claiming to have a nuclear they don't seem driven by ideological bomb has a serious credibility prob- causes. Terrorists can't go out and re- lem. He has to persuade the govern- cruit computer literates. It's too risky;

ment he has the capability. Diagrams conspiracies don't work like that. I don't Do you hove terrifying don't do it. He'll have to detonate one see terrorists innovating much with tac- these? Do medical tests show thai nothing is brutal ver- bomb and convince the authorities he tics. I expect to see a more wrong? And do you live in fear of the next has a second at the ready. If he solves sion of yesterday's terrorist. attack? You may have Panic Disorder. And his credibility problem, what is he Omni: What are some of the things you once it is diagnosed, most people respond going to demand? "Change your policy do at Kroll Associates? to treatment quickly. For more information, toward Israel." Suppose we agree, and Jenkins: An extortionist will threaten to coll 1-800-O4-PANIC . the president announces the change. put cyanide in a client's pain-relief cap-

Does he not deliver his device? If so, sules unless he receives a million dol- we renege and tell him "tough luck." lars. Now, our crisis team is helping to na return of executives Unless he persuades the government negotiate the two he will end the threat, there's no incen- kidnapped for ransom. We're working tive for us to yield. Otherwise, we're not on a case in Russia where a gang is at- talking about a finite demand, but tempting io extort protection money by about governance. He'll call us every- threatening to kill employees. We as- Howjo Pass the Mensa Entrance Exam Without Actually Taking It

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sess security for corporate targets of villain's mindset and the threat. Was it maternal instinct would triumph over terrorism. We're advising a client lo pull written by a terrorist organization or a the cult's hold on the mothers, and out of a country where political vio- madman pretending to be one? Why they'd run with their children to safety. lence is out of control. That's the rou- does this person who claims to pos- Others expected the armed defenders tine. We respond to a new crisis once sess a nuclear device have a sixth- to sally forth and be neutralized so every five days. In the last 18 months, grade education? Are there signs of agents could rescue the children. we dealt with 26 kidnappings, more editing by another hand? Are these But unless they had evidence the than 30 product tamperings, and personal grievances? Does this group group cohesion inside was breaking

dozens of other crises: death threats, want to hurt people? Some letters are down, it was probably unrealistic to terrorist acts, and espionage. frighteningly cold and logical; others hope tear gas and tanks would per- Members of the team are ex-agents are so preposterous as to be humor- suade cult members to rescue them- from French, German, or American intel- ous. Our behavioral team does some- selves and children. They'd spent ligence services, the FBI, and Scotland thing between science and art refined years together in mindless devotion. Yard. The phone rings, and we may put after years of studying hundreds of ex- The weeks of siege may have driven someone on a plane to Mexico, Angola, tortion messages, terrorist demands, them closer together. Those who left Manila, Moscow, wherever. We have and ransom notes. What they distill the compound said the cult members people stationed in Miami, Manila, Rio, shapes our strategy in dealing with a had talked about mass lethal injections London, Paris, and other places so remote adversary. and clustering around hand grenades. they can be on the scene quickly. Omni: Behavioral teams advised the Yet somehow the authorities did not Today an international business can FBI in the assault on the Branch Davidian see mass suicide as likely. To finely ad- expect to deal with kidnapping, extor- cult in Waco, Texas. What went wrong just the psychological pressure and tion, or violence. It's a bit like the Amer- with their strategy? make the action less threatening, one

ican Old West with no law and order. Jenkins: Kroll was not involved, but I psychologist suggested using a bull- When companies get into jams, their took interest in the situation. The au- dozer to scrape away at the wall in-

governments can't always do much, thorities didn't see tearing down the stead of a tank to poke holes in it. This and they're obliged to resort to private walls and inserting tear gas as a final is an example of the razor-edged deci- remedy. We're kept busy. assault, but as one more step in an in- sions the strategy required. How could Omni: You created behavioral teams cremental strategy to steadily increase they so precisely gauge human re- for extortions and hostage negotia- psychological pressure and reduce the sponses? It was beyond the capability tions. What do they tell you? perimeter of the compound. They tried of behavioral science. They were Jenkins: They analyze the content, syn- not to provoke the cultists, telling them slowly squeezing human nitroglycerin tax, logic, patterns of writing or speech through loudspeakers precisely what and it blew up on them. to understand the extortionist or other they were doing. Some officials thought Omni: Do you pay ransom so that 104 OMNI C

hostages will be rt Jenkins: Hundreds of business people are kidnapped in foreign countries each year. Many have ransom insur- onnruiPORiunn ance. In the private sector we negoti- ate, pay ransom, and get people back.

It's a psychological struggle. The kid- nappers start with an attitude: "We give the orders because we have the hostage!" They'll demand an astronom- ical sum, but usually settle for much less. We slowly chip away at their as- sumption of absolute authority, without giving them reason to harm. We sug-

gest that they don't hold all the cards. Eventually we will come to an agree- ment in the interest of both sides. Omni: Why are you so critical of the government's policy of no concessions to terrorist kidnappers?

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pers get caught and convicted. If you go down on a kidnapping charge, you'll be old and gray before you get out. So ransom kidnappings are rare. Not from a policy of no concessions. Kidnap- pings are rare because we enforce the

law within our borders. If other coun- tries can't do that, and many can't, then our policy posture isn't going to pre- vent kidnappings. Of course, there are other reasons for not granting certain

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