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...moves, it's the muscle that's animated, which causes the skin to move, which in turn gives the humans a much more solid presence. The Pixar team also worked hard to make the fabrics realistic (it took three months to nail one brief scene of Bob sticking his finger through a hole in his superhero costume). Another challenge was making the hair look natural. Violet's long, floppy mane kept flying off her head every time she shook it. When producer John Walker pressed the lead simulator to diagnose the problem, he was told, "Dammit, long hair is still...
...natural gas around the world reflect just how strong China's thirst for fossil fuels has become. Motorists bemoaning high prices at the pumps?oil rose to a record $55 a barrel on Oct. 15, up 65% this year?can with some justification point an accusatory finger toward the mainland. Its booming economy and burgeoning appetite for cars and other modern conveniences have caused energy demand to soar. China's oil imports doubled over the past five years and surged nearly 40% in the first half of 2004 alone. These increases vaulted the mainland ahead of Japan and into second...
...variety of troop types ranging from sniper to engineer. Then blast your way through doors, blow up tankers and scramble across open fields. You decide when to fire machine guns, throw grenades or sneak past the enemy. This intense, action-packed game will give you a very sore trigger finger...
...millions of diabetics who test their glucose by pricking their finger up to eight times a day, Abbott researchers have come up with a less painful alternative-- a patch called the Navigator, which is embedded with a wireless transmitter that can read glucose levels once a minute and works for three days at a time before needing to be changed. The continuous sugar-level readings are sent to a small receiver kept in a pocket or purse, and originate from the patch's hairlike filament that penetrates ever so slightly beneath the skin. But it doesn't probe deep enough...
ALAN GREENSPAN'S OFFICIAL TITLE IS Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. But he functions as something akin to America's economic Prognosticator in Chief. For decades Greenspan, 78, has constantly kept a finger in the air, trying to divine the economic future and determine how best to prepare. Is the economy poised to heat up? Raise interest rates. Is it likely to cool down? Cut them a quarter-point. During his tenure, a period that has stretched over four Presidents and assorted stock-market rises and falls, Greenspan has commanded dozens of interest-rate adjustments. For tens of millions...