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...Klux Klan. It launched chapters in Florida, Georgia and Ohio. Then, in 2005, it disbanded. His next act was the Sons of Dixie, and he drew a cast of mostly twentysomething disciples, including his 20-year-old son, Shane Foster. They set up a website to attract new recruits like Lynch, who could return to their hometowns and grow the operations...
...that he waived the Sons of Dixie's $25 application fee. (In 2005, she had pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a controlled drug - methamphetamine - that police found on her living room coffee table. Friends say Lynch never married nor had children, and kept drugs around mainly to attract friends in order to alleviate her loneliness.) "I don't think she had any idea what she was getting into," says Fred H. DeMier, a Tulsa attorney who handled Lynch's previous criminal cases...
...common knowledge that like charges repel and unlike charges attract, but it is less obvious that even charge-neutral objects have fluctuating charges...
...have two similar objects, like two dancers following steps, they tend to attract each other,” said Parsegian. “But with two unlike objects there is the possibility that they repel...
What makes things trickier still is that not all attraction is equal. Some materials are drawn much more powerfully together than others - particularly on the nano (billionth of a meter) scale. And that difference can be exploited. In the Nature experiment, the research team began by placing a microscopically small sphere of gold on a glass surface. Gold and glass get along well enough and under the right circumstances will attract. But what they both like a whole lot more is a liquid called bromobenzene. When the researchers introduced a little bromobenzene to the other two materials, they both began...