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With the advent of silicon gears, springs and cantilevers, machines will become smaller still. These miniature moving parts can be etched on silicon using a variation on the photolithographic technique used to make computer chips. To build a tiny rotating arm, for example, layers of polysilicon and a type of glass that can be removed with acid are deposited on a silicon base. A hole for the hub is lined with the glass and then filled with polysilicon. When the glass is etched away, the hub remains and the arm is free to spin around its axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Incredible Shrinking Machine | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work in the military. Even if the exclusionary policy were changed tomorrow, the underlying tensions and hatreds inherent in the system would still make it unacceptable for an arm, or even a finger, of the military to train or recruit on Harvard's campus. ROTC has no place here. Sheila C. Allen '93 Lily S. Khadjavi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No R.O.T.C. on Campus | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...difficult to understand why things American are close to the center of young Japanese dreams. "America is equated with freedom, openness, wide spaces," says Hikaru Hayashi, senior research director of Hakuhodo Institute of Life & Living, a research arm of one of Japan's largest advertising companies. "Sharing in America can release Japanese teenagers from the restraints they live with every day. Through fashion, they can capture a bit of the life-style they can never hope to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: American Casual Seizes Japan | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...silver Chevrolet Sprint. Excited rescuers crawled cautiously closer. They found a man, alive and semiconscious, still strapped into the front seat. When a paramedic shouted, the man moved his head. Struggling gingerly for five hours, they extricated Buck Helm, 57, a shipping clerk, who managed to wave an arm as he was lifted to a waiting ambulance amid the cheers of exultant searchers. His condition was described as critical but stable. He had survived 90 hours in what for so many others had been a tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Especially when Harvard looks to field a full team today. With only running back Silas Myers questionable with an injury to a left arm, the Crimson will finally have some healthy bodies at key positions, including the return of adjuster Bobby Frame to the defense...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: It's Crunch Time for Gridders | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

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