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...unlikely as it seems, each of those small pinkish disks is a diamond, growing from a tiny seed crystal under conditions carefully created and monitored by Apollo's proprietary software. Chemically, Apollo's creations are no different from the diamond that is squeezed from carbon deep in the earth at incredible pressure and temperature. "It still blows people's minds that you can manufacture diamond," says Bryant Linares, president and CEO of the 17-year-old company based in suburban Boston. "People still feel that there is something mystical about diamonds and how they are made...
...handling high voltages like those found in switches for big municipal power grids. Physically, diamond's toughness allows it to withstand the searing heat of more sophisticated lasers and even the brutal extremes of temperature and pressure faced by the windows on spacecraft as they leave and re-enter Earth's atmosphere. And diamond's ability to resist corrosion from acids and other organic compounds makes it a good material for biological sensors that may one day be implanted in the human body...
...amount of argument can prove or disprove the existence of God. Heaven and Hell exist on earth-those who live in either of those places know it. God or divinity is in the heart of every living creature. If you can't feel it, forget it. Manohar L. Karwall Jalandhar, India...
...Jum’ah’s certainty of the continued dominance of oil. “He was a little bit too willing to assert estimates favorable to his industry,” Mitchell C. Hunter ’09 said. Chris D. Holmes, a graduate student in Earth and Planet Sciences, echoed the point. “I was surprised by his confidence in the oil industry to remain unperturbed with possible new technologies,” he said. —Staff writer Shoshana S. Tell can be reached at stell@fas.harvard.edu...
...claimed to be the Mahdi - in Shi'a Islam, a spiritual leader who vanished in the late 9th century and whose return presages a final battle between good and evil. (Sunni Muslims have a quite different conception of the Mahdi, a redemptive figure who will walk the earth to establish peace in the world prior to general resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment...