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While the Communists dream of power, those who wield it appear adrift, as a fin-de-regime cloud settles over the Kremlin and the maneuvering for power within intensifies. At least two members of the new Yeltsin team, Lebed and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, have obvious presidential ambitions and little love for each other. Lebed's aides in fact privately hint that Chernomyrdin will be a prime target of their planned anticorruption campaign. Both, however, are deeply wary of Anatoli Chubais, the new chief of the presidential staff. An ambitious, tough-minded proponent of privatization, Chubais in turn shares with...
...first product to incorporate the technology is Fin-Fin, an animated dolphin/bird that bounces happily around your computer screen in response to whistles and hand signals. Due in stores this fall, the phantasmagoric Flipper was designed to make the electronic world more friendly for 6- to 12-year-old girls. Fin-Fin is a long way from a truly smart disk-based mammal--she can't swim out to the Internet and grab an image, for instance--but Fujitsu hopes she and her electronic cousins will help demystify (and sell) computers...
...fin de siecle et on sera mort...
Bats' built-in echolocation system is so finely tuned that it can detect insects' footsteps, changes in air currents caused by vibrating insect wings, even the ripple in a pond as a minnow's fin breaks the surface...
Timing may also explain the progression of fins to feet. In tetrapods (four-legged animals), feet do not grow straight out of the leg, proceeding from the ankle out, but develop in a fanlike progression that runs from the smallest digit to the largest. In Geneva, Duboule and his colleagues tracked the activity of four Hox genes in the budding feet of embryonic mice and found precisely this pattern. By contrast, studies showed that in the zebrafish, the Hox genes switch off earlier, perhaps to ensure that a flexible fin ray (useful for swimming) will form in the place...