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...Whitesides lab, which focuses its studies on the structure and function of interfaces, has been examining the movement of water on various surfaces for more than six years...
...credibility. But if history is any guide, it probably won't. Space is a harsh and unforgiving place, where Murphy's Law is paramount. In fact, many of NASA's best public relations successes have come at the brink of failure. Engineers restored 70% of the Galileo probe's function after its main antenna failed to deploy; astronauts grabbed the Intelsat-6 satellite by hand when a less dramatic rescue technique proved useless; astronauts survived an explosion on Apollo 13 that could easily have been fatal...
...happy; there's just something about their work that makes a crying-on-the-inside quality appropriate. Luckily for fans of country singer Clint Black -- and unfortunately, perhaps, for the man himself -- he is one of those people whose disquiet, in his lyrics at least, has increased as a function of his rising success. The reasoning of such people tends to be variants on the following: I have a new car, a home, a pretty wife . . . Hmmm. Now that I have these things I could lose them: my car could be stolen, my wife could run off; in a worst...
...this sense the self-inflicted death performs a societal function. When corruption reaches self-destruction, the public must recognize a greater malady, a national sickness, and renew its ethics...
...this sense, the self-inflicted death performs a social function. When corruption reaches self-destruction, the public must recognize a greater malady, a national sickness, and renew its ethics...