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...plodding one like an elephant. When Stumpy the kangaroo lost her hind leg, surgeons designed a prosthetic foot--held in place by a traditional stump and socket--that is made of carbon fiber, which has the ability to spring back to its original shape after it is bent. This same technique is often used to make prostheses for human runners, like the ones designed for the famous double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius. "Carbon fibers have a shape that will always come back," says Rick Nitsch, a prosthetist from American Orthopedics in Columbus, Ohio, who designed Stumpy's bouncy leg four...
...lesson was Capitalism 101: rap music's market strength gave its artists permission to say what they pleased. And the rappers themselves exhibited an entrepreneurial bent unlike that of musicians before them. They understood the need to market and the benefits of line extensions. Theirs was capitalism with a beat...
...footnote in accounts of his life. The native of Pisa, Italy, born in 1564, would eventually be celebrated (and castigated) for his controversial celestial discoveries, his advocacy for an experiment-based approach to the natural world, and his complicated and combative relationship with the Church. Yet his artistic bent was central to his life, too. William Shea, who holds the Galileo Chair in History of Science at the University of Padua, notes that as a teenager the future scientist received comprehensive training as a draftsman, and would eventually count prominent Renaissance artists and architects among his best friends. Late...
...more than this year, and of those loans that are likely to carry higher rates, nearly three-quarters are subprime. Since many adjustable mortgages change rates after two or three years, the loans due for reset would have been written in 2005 and 2006, the years underwriting standards were bent the most. "It's clear that the performance of loans will be worse," says Mark Adelson, recently departed head of structured finance research at Nomura Securities, "but it's not yet clear how much worse...
...both hunting and being hunted, fighting, sprinting for cover, holing up for precious panting downtime, "three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead." The transformation from schoolboys and girls to resistance fighters is complete: they are a three-person magical special-ops squad, bent on finding and destroying Horcruxes using what little high-school magic they have, the clues Dumbledore left behind, their wits (mostly Hermione's) and their inherent Gryffindorian bravery and good-heartedness. (They're looking for the Deathly Hallows, too, but I'm not going to deny you the pleasure...