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...biotechnology is limited by the tasks cells already know how to carry out. Nanotech visionaries have much more ambitious notions. Imagine a nanomachine that could take raw carbon and arrange it, atom by atom, into a perfect diamond. Imagine a machine that dismembers dioxin molecules, one by one, into their component parts. Or a device that cruises the human bloodstream, seeks out cholesterol deposits on vessel walls and disassembles them. Or one that takes grass clippings and remanufactures them into bread. Literally every physical object in the world, from computers to cheese, is made of molecules, and in principle...
...ruse to steal one of Jill's rings long enough to compare it to his pinky, then return it before she noticed. Since Jon, the perfect gentleman, had already asked Jill's family's permission for her hand in marriage, he was able to have Jill's grandmother's diamond reset in a new engagement ring for Jill...
This June, amidst the pomp and circumstance of Harvard's annual commencement ceremonies, softball co-captain Deborah Abeles will proudly receive her diploma with a degree in English. After four years on the diamond, she is prepared for any curveballs that life after college may throw...
Despite her modesty and reluctance to play a second sport, Abeles has never backed down from a challenge. As an English/pre-med concentrator, Abeles' academic career has proven to be as challenging as her battles on the diamond. Most of her elective courses have been devoted to pre-med requirements, and she will still need to finish up some courses before taking her MCATs and applying for medical school...
...give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them; they sold smuggled diamonds for fresh weapons; they got ready to grab power. The slapdash pact assumed Sankoh actually wanted peace, trusting in the good faith of a brutal tyrant...