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...vantage points, against the deflating sound of clicking cameras and revving tour coaches, and curtailed by the need to be back at the hotel bar by nightfall, then fine. But if you want to leave the tourist pack behind, you have no choice but to hit the awful dirt...
There was fill-in first baseman Mike Dukovich, a freshman playing the position vacated by injured all-everything junior Trey Hendricks, stretching across the diamond in his trademark split to pick yet another throw from the dirt...
...Charles ponders doomsday scenarios, millions of people already use the products of nanotech research every day without even knowing it. Consumers of Sunsorb brand sunscreen have nanotech to thank for that product's invisible protection against ultraviolet rays. And it's nanotech that makes Pilkington's Activ windows shed dirt in the rain. If these mundane marvels are not impressive enough, researchers will soon bring us toothpaste that coats, protects and repairs damaged enamel, as well as self-cleaning shoes that never need polishing. Nanotech may also lead to dramatic advances in energy production, defense technology and health care...
While Iraqis were carrying off everything from leather sofas to gold-plated fixtures last week, Americans were rooting through government offices and Saddam's palaces for something else: clues to the location of Saddam's suspected weapons of mass destruction (WMD). And they hit some pay dirt. Military sources told TIME that documents found in the dictator's cratered residences in Baghdad may provide new clues to specific weapons and where they are stored. On Saturday, General Amir al-Saadi, Saddam's top science adviser, surrendered to U.S. forces in Baghdad, insisting that Iraq had no WMD, but U.S. officials...
Part of a $92 million renovation project that is projected to take five years in total, the new and improved entrance to the century-old library showcases the pink marble columns and tiled floor, which have been cleaned of the dirt and debris that had piled up over the course of decades...