Word: coils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bork confirmation hearings. But, oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Before Bork even took the witness stand, Biden learned the hard way that 1988 presidential politics has become a school for scandal. Now many believe that Biden's beleaguered candidacy has almost certainly shuffled off its mortal coil. But the defiant candidate still insists that the whole flap is "much ado about nothing...
...many scientists, obstacles remain. One is the need to form the new materials into usable shapes. While metals bend, anyone who has dropped a dinner plate knows that ceramics do not. And a flexible material has a big advantage over a brittle one if it is to be coiled around an electromagnet. Says Osamu Horigami, chief researcher at Toshiba's Energy Science and Technology Laboratory: "To get a magnet or coil or even a wire we could use with complete confidence could take another five years." Agrees Hulm: "It will take extraordinary engineering to solve the brittleness problem...
Ordinary microscopes provide sharp images of most bacteria but cannot distinguish anything smaller than about eight-millionths of an inch -- the tiniest bacteria, for example -- because the wavelength of visible light, which is in the hundred-thousandth of an inch range, is too long. Ruska found that a magnetic coil could focus electrons, which have a wavelength that is roughly 100,000 times shorter. Substituting magnets for lenses and electrons for light, he built his first electron microscope. Improved versions, by providing images of viruses and even large molecules, have revolutionized such disparate fields as biology and electronics...
...like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...times sounded downright angst- ridden. "The more sophisticated, the more technologically advanced we become, and the more we feel we can dominate nature," he mused, "the more we feel that it's one of those difficult ironies to bear that we should actually depart and shuffle off this mortal coil." After years of stiff formality, he yearns for simple verities, and talked longingly about the rewards of working with his hands on a farm in Cornwall. "I think it's terribly therapeutic, funnily enough, and there's something very important about working on land and actual manual labor, mucking...