It looks like Magnidude's scientific career is about to peak when he sets up a time lapse camcorder on several specimens of the exotic Metallica ductillicus indiansis, better known as the Indian Wireflower. The flowers fail to perform though, and Magnidude's hopes wilt faster than mini-orchids under a searing desert sun. But it all works out in the end. (Except for that second flower from the left.)—Odonnol, Miles