Modern Powers2

Wikiwanna is Iroquois for Bear City according to the peer counselors at Camp Wikiwanna, but Trudy has determined that is bullshit. First off, this is Tahoe, two thousand miles west of Iroquois territory. Second: wikiwanna. Just from the sound of it you can tell it’s a made-up word. Third: their stupid faces when they say, faux-ominously, Bear City, look the same as when they tell ghost stories. Besides, neither Trudy nor anyone she’s talked to has seen so much as a doe, let alone a bear. Though they can barely hit the targets themselves, the peer counselors teach the campers to shoot bows and arrows. The horseback riding, her father said, was cancelled a few years back because the liability premiums were too high. What else to do, swim? Or use the one kayak, which someone else always checked...

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Modern Powers1

The big speakers flank the stage, and between them dances the throng, girls on parade, their skirts so short you could see their panties if you were close enough to the stage, which is exactly where Scotty has positioned himself—close enough, even, to identify which girls aren’t wearing any at all. He’s not hiding his gaze, but there’s no one to rebuke him. Each in the crowd is focused on his own drink, her own hair, the warm press of other bodies against them. And given the hour of night, the angle of floodlights pointing down into the courtyard, the steep angle from below of his vision, his salacious view up skirts yields something unrecognizable, something that looks as much like snapshots of Martian topography or the shadows of a deep sea trench than an erotic glimpse of genitalia. Still,...

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Modern Powers

Everyone pauses. This cat talk makes them uncomfortable, can’t she see it? “Anyways, I’ve been thinking about quitting,” Ashleigh says. “Mitch makes enough. I think I could do the stay-at-home thing.” “Not all it’s cracked up to be, believe me!” Mary says. Amy agrees, “When I was out of work and had to stay at home all day—” But Donna is talking over her. “—It’s impossible to know until you’ve tried it, but you don’t want to spend that much time with your kids. Really, you don’t. You love them less, I think.” Amy makes a few more comments but no one responds. It’s not that they can’t hear her, she can tell, they just aren’t listening. “Out of sight, out of mind, is that it?” Amy says, but no one responds. “To tell the truth,” someone says later in the brunch, “Scoundrel wasn’t even a nice...

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Holiday at home with a Natural Retreats ‘Staycation'

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The rise of graphene

Graphene is a rapidly rising star on the horizon of materials science and condensed-matter physics. This strictly two-dimensional material exhibits exceptionally high crystal and electronic quality, and, despite its short history, has already revealed a cornucopia of new physics and potential applications, which are briefly discussed here. Whereas one can be certain of the realness of applications only when commercial products appear, graphene no longer requires any further proof of its importance in terms of fundamental physics. Owing to its unusual electronic spectrum, graphene has led to the emergence of a new paradigm of 'relativistic' condensed-matter...

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