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...Bubbles New inflatable muscles could provide enhanced mobility to the elderly and infirm. Developed at Tokyo's Science University by Hiroshi Kobayashi, whose previous research focused on lifelike robotic faces, this Lycra suit employs tiny air canisters to inflate rubber muscles that boost the strength of the wearer's actual muscles. Pressure sensors detect the wearer's movements and direct the suit accordingly. AUTO SECURITY Remote Control Car thieves beware. A student in Bangalore, India has devised a system that can remotely immobilize a car after it has been stolen. The N-S Aero-Stop uses a transmitter and antenna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 5/26/2002 | See Source »

Following the meeting, some Faculty expressed their concern that the change had been hastily approved—professors had not been notified of the proposed change prior to the meeting, and the actual wording of the new policy was not distributed among Faculty at the meeting, before they voted to adopt...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Alters Grading, Honors | 5/22/2002 | See Source »

...theory has it that the reclining statue may be entombed within the actual mountainside, in a long chamber whose entrances were sealed up long ago, when the first Islamic invaders swept into the valley. But most archaeologists believe that the Buddha was out in the open and later buried either by an earthquake or the crumbling sandstone cliff above it. Either way, it has apparently been saved from the Taliban's predations centuries later. Jean-FranCois Jarrige, director of the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, was in Bamiyan recently, walking gingerly along a path cleared in the minefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Lies Beneath | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Library staff said the shutdown will have relatively little impact on users since circulation is expected to close for only a couple of days when the actual switch-over takes place...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Libraries To Unveil New Catalog on Web | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...destroyed, meaning they can and will be stored for possible use in the future. U.S. insistence on this point was particularly troubling to the Russians, but Putin, who can't afford to maintain a large strategic arsenal in any case, acceded to it in the end. "There's no actual reduction," complains Jim Steinberg, a top foreign- policy adviser to Clinton. "It's just an agreement on the deployment of forces. You can't even call it an arms-control treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our New Best Friend? | 5/19/2002 | See Source »

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