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...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make...
...several witnesses to testify last week before the Senate's subcommittee on investigations, chaired by the G.O.P.'s Susan Collins of Maine, who wants to regulate sweepstakes and fine companies engaged in trickery. Sweepstakes organizers, who use the contests to hawk magazines, books and videos, would be required to display prominently on their mailings the odds of winning. And they would be barred from telling contestants they are winners when they are not. Facing a room full of industry lobbyists--they could be winners!--Collins charged that contest organizers are "exploiting people's dreams through these deceptive mailings...
...with her muscles," says pro-basketball coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline. "But her mental capacity to play in the big games, to compete at the highest level--and never lose--is unique. Some people compete when it's convenient. Chamique steps up when her team needs her." In a Jordannaire display in January, she and her team put an end to the 54 home-game winning streak of archrival University of Connecticut--with Holdsclaw scoring 25 points even though debilitated by a bad cold...
...must be considered independently. She divides his photographs into four discrete but contingent sections: portraits, abstractions, fashion photographs and still lives. As the works were taken during his ten-year residence in France between 1932 and 1942, they bear a strong stylistic affinity to each other. Yet the works display Wols's movement from germinal Bauhaus sterility and Surrealist tomfoolery to a style ultimately unique both from his contemporaries and from his later works on canvas...
...must be considered independently. She divides his photographs into four discrete but contingent sections: portraits, abstractions, fashion photographs and still lives. As the works were taken during his ten-year residence in France between 1932 and 1942, they bear a strong stylistic affinity to each other. Yet the works display Wols's movement from germinal Bauhaus sterility and Surrealist tomfoolery to a style ultimately unique both from his contemporaries and from his later works on canvas...