Word: antioch
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...MacGregor, a high-tech entrepreneur, runs NanoMuscle, an Antioch, Calif., company that makes 3-in. motors suitable for everything from power windows to dolls with nuanced facial expressions. "I like to be on the wave of the next insanely great thing," he says. His motors work because the alloy nitinol can assume different shapes as its temperature fluctuates. An electrical current causes a nitinol wire in the device to shorten, allowing the linear motor to contract like a human muscle but at 1,000 times the strength. That's a simple task but an important one, and one MacGregor believes...
...have touched meat. "It felt like we were keeping kosher," says Maggie's mother Linda, who isn't Jewish. At high school Maggie was ridiculed, even shoved to the ground, by teen boys who apparently found her eating habits threatening. She found a happy ending, of sorts, enrolling at Antioch College, where she majors in ecofeminism. "Here," she says, "the people on the defensive are the ones who eat meat...
After growing up in New York City, Gould earned a degree in biology from Antioch College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University...
After growing up in New York City, Gould earned a degree in geology from Antioch College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University...
After growing up in New York City, Gould earned a degree in geology from Antioch College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University...