Word: grab
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...reveal their personas—before they’ve even uttered a word. Oliver Platt (“The West Wing”) makes the splashiest entrance, answering his cell phone (“It’s my agent”) and fussily heading to grab some water bottles from the courtesy table. Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), all business, makes a bee-line for her chair, though her presence hardly goes unnoticed by the score of mostly male college journalists around the room. Director Harold Ramis (“Caddyshack...
...that is opens there are 100 students waiting outside the door of the museum and there is a big rush to grab the perennial favorites,” says Dackerman...
...rotate, and fuse hundreds of nanowires in precise patterns. Agarwal’s discovery uses a mechanism called the Holographic Optical Trap, or HOT, invented by Grier’s group in 1997. According to Grier, a HOT “use[s] forces exerted by light to grab and move microscopic objects.” The HOT technology improves on previous methods to arrange nanowires by stochastic methods—like the use of fluid pressure to coax nanowires into place. Grier wrote in an e-mail that applications of the HOT technique “range from performing...
...video equipment and a few computers to ship to another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team's tech guy carried a shotgun for protection. The military had taken over the facility, so to grab the supplies, Spero's crew had to duck under the few hundred rifles stored in the player's lounge. Pistols were strewn on the Ping-Pong table the players had used to pass time. Fortunately, the guns weren't loaded. How did the men know? Says Spero: "There were boxes...
...impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition--that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it--ought to be one of the most democratically distributed. Nature is a zero-sum game, after all. Every buffalo you kill for your family is one less for somebody else's; every acre of land you occupy elbows out somebody else. Given that, the need to get ahead ought to be hard-wired into all of us equally...