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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Forcing Water Uphill | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Space | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bluer Shade Of Black | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Foster's Note: Despair And Corruption | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Foster's Note: Despair And Corruption | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

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