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...molecule. All he seemed to be getting, though, was a headache. The microscope, which detects the con-tours of molecules by dragging a flexible sliver of coated silicon over them, was malfunctioning. After puzzling through his problem for months, Thundat realized one rainy day during a rare midday foray outdoors that the microscope's probe was warping as it sponged up moisture from the air. Intrigued, he ran a simple experiment and discovered that the probe was a marvelously precise hygrometer. If it could measure moisture, he wondered, why not all sorts of other stuff? Thundat, 46, has since built...
...diarist seems too sedentary a career goal, there's always piracy. How I Became a Pirate, by Melinda Long, with bright and densely colored illustrations by David Shannon, is the funny and sly account of a young boy who makes a brief foray on a pirate ship before realizing he wants to be home in time for soccer practice and a bedtime story...
Though his skepticism of the Bush administration’s foray into Iraq is probably evident to viewers, he says, people who try to place him in one camp or another will fail...
...Raju says that the group’s foray into Israeli-Palestinian issues accelerated this fall as a “reactive process,” spurred by clashes with HSI. On Nov. 3, HIPJ and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) hosted Amer Jubran—a local activist then facing deportation to Jordan—in a Science Center auditorium, where he delivered a speech decrying the USA Patriot Act. Jubran, who refuses to condemn Palestinian suicide bombings against Jewish targets, provoked protests from pro-Israel groups. HSI members emphasized that their objection was to Jubran?...
...Making a foray into the pizza business at Tommy’s House of Pizza—his first independent venture—Iftikhar picked up his pseudonym but found that mixing dough and serving slices didn’t suit him. The labor was too physical for his fragile health, he says...