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Good thing they did. The experiment established that large molecules could be mechanically manipulated. "Until recently," says Robert Tjian, Bustamante's colleague at Berkeley, "we all studied complex molecular machines as populations--what we call bucket biochemistry." The approach has its uses, but it reveals little about how the machines work or what forces they can generate...
...Sorry, fellas, it might be a while. While the industry suffered its worst spring since the dawn of jet flight, JetBlue is making money and on track to carry three million passengers this year. That's just a drop in the 670-million-passenger airline biz bucket, but it's enough to keep the airline growing and adding planes and flights. At low, low prices - tickets from JFK to its newest city, New Orleans, start at $69 one way, and even last-minute fares (where the big carriers usually start using commas in their prices) to Oakland...
...started to fret. The number, the Administration said, was just too big. Other donor nations were also concerned that the figure was unrealistic. The sum would be hard to raise. Moreover, a U.N. official explained, Washington was concerned that the U.S. contribution would "look like a drop in the bucket...
...Take the bucket seat out of your old Chevy, put it on a wood frame in the middle of a field and sit in it. Now you know what it feels like to read Tom Galambos' comix novella "All the Wrong Places" (Laszlo Press; 74pg; $14.95). Nathan, the protagonist, sits in his Chevy couch a lot. He does it on the cover. It must feel internal yet expansive, comforting yet lonely - exactly like reading this thoughtful book...
...amra were fired up for a fight. If the police wouldn't give them one, they decided to pick another. Across the street, they noticed a young activist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with a roll of posters and a bucket of paste. On the posters was the image of Raed Dabash, a 20-year-old P.F.L.P. member shot by Israeli soldiers. The activist set to work pasting up pictures of Dabash over the top of some older posters. That was his mistake. The martyr whose posters were obscured was Hussein Abayat, a gunman who became...