Word: calvert
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...reason artificial-muscle researchers convened for the first time earlier this month at the International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials in Newport Beach, Calif. "It's clear that if we're going to build little robots that do things, then they've got to have muscles," says Paul Calvert, a materials scientist at the University of Arizona. He uses polymer gels to construct "Jell-O jacks," which resemble the wobbly dessert but are capable of raising and lowering small objects. Agrees Qiming Zhang, an electrical engineer at Pennsylvania State University: "The only bottleneck is that we haven't found...
...does. He has already received impassioned letters from disabled patients offering to test the first bionic limbs. But such equipment remains years from reality, because the polymer strips and gels being used for muscles are far too pliant to lift heavy weights. Until a new material is found, says Calvert, "you've only got to look at your arm to realize how far we have...
...more pernicious effect of the system's culture was its resistance to real, cost-efficient reform, especially when the impetus came from outsiders. When the Calvert School, a costly Baltimore private school, tested its nationally renowned curriculum in one of the city's elementary schools, it produced startling advances in achievement and drew visitors from as far away as Japan. But the superintendent in place when the program was first installed branded it a "rich man's" curriculum. "The school system," recalls Robert Embry, whose Abell Foundation helped fund the experiment, "resisted it to the death...
...These five achievers are truly pioneers for inspiring us to examine what is possible in ourselves, in each other, and in the world around us," said PNC Bank President and CEO Calvert A. Morgan Jr. in the press release...
...Calvert's a sturdy candidate in a new but already Republican-leaning district. In 1993 he became tabloid fodder when the Corona police caught him in his car with a convicted prostitute. Even then, he beat his Democratic opponent handily. This year he is eager to win an election based on issues alone...