Word: atomization
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...Half-Century, and in 1989, when it named Mikhail Gorbachev Man of the Decade. Now, at the millennium, it was time to pick the figure who towered over the entire 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st. The choice: "the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe," whose work transformed all the key fields in our age of science and technology. Einstein's "humanity and extraordinary brilliance made ... his name a synonym for genius...
...words at each other at Harvard events, and the president of Harvard has set off a debate on an important question of intents and actions. The President of the U.S. has threatened war in Iraq. The North Koreans have announced that they were just kidding about not wanting an atom bomb. Midterm elections tomorrow will decide control of both houses of Congress and the Massachusetts governorship too. Almost every Harvard athletic team is having a good season, and the Crimson Dance Team has been invited to perform at halftime in the Sugar Bowl...
Last week a U.S. official called it "underwhelming," and several British officials close to Tony Blair agreed that it contained no smoking gun, no proof "that Saddam has an atom bomb in Basra." But today Blair's government released its long-promised dossier on Saddam's program to build weapons of mass destruction, hours before parliament assembled for an emergency debate on Iraq. Among its key findings...
Technologist Eric Drexler envisioned a future in which machines far smaller than dust motes would construct everything from chairs to rocket engines, atom by atom; in which microscopic robots would heal human ills, cell by cell. Sixteen years after the publication of Drexler's book Engines of Creation, the molecular-scale technologies most immediately available to consumers are somewhat less fantastic: stain-resistant khakis and more durable tennis balls...
Another impediment is the cost and supply of the platinum particles that catalyze, or kick off, the process. Think of them almost as matchmakers, encouraging every oxygen atom to mate with two hydrogens, releasing valuable energy with each reaction. That is the heart of the fuel cell...