The bomb squad was called out after a maintenance worker walked by a car in a parking garage and saw a briefcase with the word “a-bomb” scrawled across it.
F-S-U used its campus wide alerting system. Text messages had the students and employees on alert for a brief period until police gave the all clear.
Lt. Jason Trumbower of the F-S-U Police Department says no explosives were found. They later determined the briefcase belonged to a student.
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The book is actually a collection of reprinted short pieces. The titular essay by Siem -- which you have found on the Internet in its entirety, including the illustrations -- was originally published in something called The Indicator Nov. 1956. Another item in the collection is a poem by John Updike (Cosmic Gall ) that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1960. Vintage stuff.
Dorian, what did you expect when you put eight stories under one new topic?!
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Actually, Professor, the book looks really interesting. I know a lot of people that would enjoy it. Yeah, I guessed they were a collection of essays. I actually found myself on a physics site, at one point, reading about the book. Yikes!
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