Word: eyelashed
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...Near-Earth Asteroids next week in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and is planning a seminar this year on asteroid avoidance. Still, the threat of a sneak attack remains. In 1989 a 250-m-wide (820 ft.) asteroid was discovered only after it had missed the earth by an astronomical eyelash -- less than 804,500 km (500,000 miles...
Stephanie Bates leans into the dressing-room mirror and delicately re- adjusts a false eyelash that perspiration has set askew. The women behind her scramble for their costumes, throwing off tap shoes, pulling on tights. The mood is frantic, but full dress rehearsals are like that. No one is quite comfortable with the routine...
With only one doubles match to go, Harvard came within an eyelash of completing the shutout. Freshmen Samantha Ettus and McNabb were up, 5-2, in the third-set tiebreaker, but Ison and Detwiler put together five straight points to get B.U. on the board...
...used to squeeze millions of electrical circuits onto slivers of silicon, researchers are creating a lilliputian tool chest of tiny moving parts: valves, gears, springs, levers, lenses and ball bearings. One team at the University of California, Berkeley, has already built a silicon motor not much wider than an eyelash that can rotate 500 times a minute...
...more parents strike out on their own or with private brokers, some professionals fear that standards and safeguards are slipping. "Adoptive parents won't blink an eyelash over paying $20,000 to $30,000 for a healthy white baby," says family lawyer Samuel Totaro of Trevose, Pa. "This business can be a license to steal." William Pierce, president of the National Committee for Adoption and a militant defender of traditional adoption practices, argues that abuses have multiplied as formal agencies have lost control of the process. "One couple I know adopted twins through a lawyer," says Pierce. "After several weeks...