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...eaten by a spiny fish after the two duel in a maelstrom (conveyed by hands with cut-out lighting bolts attached). All the while, Feist gasps out soft narrative lyrics interspersed with an eerie harmony. After her husband is swallowed, the wife dons a retro-science fiction swim apparatus to search for him. Although the ending is ambiguous, the candle that has lit the scene is blown out in its final moments, so I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for the couple’s future together. While the frequent close-ups on the puppets...
...uses parts, including transmission systems and air foils, which have direct biological analogies that are “not accidental”. His lab recently constructed all the individual components of the fly which performed similarly to those of an actual insect. Wood is now developing an apparatus that would simultaneously measure the forces, as well as the aero-elastic properties, generated by the motion of the robotic fly. By running the tests with different types of wings and different trajectories, Wood hopes to correlate the movements and forces with the design space. “Our goals...
...sources told TIME that Hamas will try to sabotage the deployment of the new Palestinian security forces by staging attacks on the Israeli settlers or military, which could lead to a backlash against the U.S.-sponsored security force. Says a Hamas spokesman: "We are opposed to the Palestinian security apparatus. Its aim is to serve Israeli interests by arresting Hamas activists." But with Israeli forces raiding suspected Hamas hideouts in the West Bank every night, the Islamists may not have the weapons and men to strike back...
...Weber said that “when those subject to bureaucratic control seek to escape the influence of the existing bureaucratic apparatus, this is normally possible only by creating an organization of their own which is equally subject to bureaucratization...
...anyone would ever be sick enough to recreate an apparatus that would send a young, unsuspecting, somewhat innocent commuter zigzagging underneath a foreign city in search of a little metro pass has always befuddled...