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...underwater structures at the center of this concern are, in fact, built by live animals. Corals--fingertip- to hand-size creatures that stick together to form large colonies--use the carbon and calcium in seawater to build their hard, exterior skeletons. Over time, the stony material accumulates, giving colonies of coral their signature shapes. Some corals, for example, form big round heads that resemble a giant cauliflower, while others assume elongate shapes reminiscent of skyscrapers. As impressive as cities, mature reefs may be thousands of years old, extend for hundreds of miles and shelter thousands upon thousands of species--making...
...This he finally did after insisting that much of Leonard's dialogue from the novel be restored. "In the original script it said something like, 'Where's my coat? You better find it. It cost $400.' But in the book it was, 'You see a black leather jacket, fingertip length, has lapels like a suitcoat? You don't, you owe me three seventy-nine ... You get the coat back or you give me the three seventy-nine my wife paid for it at Alexander's.' It was the detail. I said I'd do the movie, but they...
Schwab said each bag contains an amount of substance approximately equal to a fingertip, and many of the bags contained multiple "hits" of the substance...
...perhaps, suggests Ramachandran, by sprouting new sets of connections. Because neurons that process information from the arm are near those that handle the face, for example, these new connections can cause a blindfolded patient to think a gentle touch on the face is really a touch on a missing fingertip. Says Ramachandran: "Reorganization can occur in a period of weeks...
...three new ThinkPads will continue to offer IBM's new mouse technology--in which usurers point on a fingertip sensitive pad to move the cursor--rather than the trackballs used in most portable computers...