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Spotnitz’s thesis adviser, Howard Stone, who is McKay professor of chemical engineering and applied mechanics, and his lab team have been working on controlled alignment of carbon nanotubes on curved substrates. While this may not mean much as stated, it actually can have many important applications in medicine and other fields. “Developing methods that control the alignment of nanotubes successfully may facilitate the fabrication, or mass production, of nanotube-based microprocessors and sensors,” he says. And because it has never really been done before, it represents both the possibilities for nanotech...
...Morey (who went on to invent the boogie board in 1971). Four years ago, Pope introduced the Bisect, a two-piece board that is even easier to transport; just pull it out of the trunk, snap it together, and head for the water. His latest innovation: the Bisect Hollow Carbon Stealth (as in Stealth fighter). It's pressure-molded out of a carbon-fiber composite--a jet-age fabric woven with graphite and impregnated with epoxy--that's 20% lighter than conventional foam-and-fiber-glass long boards and, Pope claims, "at least 10 times stronger." It's also...
...government. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denies that his regime supplied Pyongyang's enrichment program. But in 1998 Washington slapped sanctions on the lab of Abdul Qadir Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's Bomb. As head of the nation's nuclear program, he made the Ghauri as a carbon copy of North Korea's Nodong missile, say U.S. officials. Khan is believed to have established front companies and smuggling operations to gather and sell nuclear gear and blueprints. Musharraf forced his resignation as the lab's leader 18 months...
...proud of my cynicism, have recognized it for the sturdy rampart it is, have smiled wryly as it, undented, has deflected disappointment. Expect little, and you cannot be disappointed. With our generation, a hard cynicism has replaced the gee-whiz ingenuousness that characterized American generations past as surely as carbon is pressed from peat into coal. What danger could there be in protective cynicism...
...already knows that years of cavorting under the hole in the ozone layer have most likely given her skin an unattractive, leathery quality. Aside from this, there was something about the idea of identifying the “real age” of my skin through some sort of carbon dating procedure that made me feel like a rare Grecian pottery shard...