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...Carbon molecules form a hexagonal mesh that curls into a cylinder like a tube of chicken wire. About 100 times as strong as steel and 50,000 times as thin as a human hair, they can serve as the structure of a nanobot. Acting as semiconductors, nanotubes are also ideal for building a nanobot's tiny microprocessor brain...
...Patrick's Day a couple of years ago, I found myself in the ideal spot to celebrate the occasion - the highlands of Papua New Guinea, as far from New York City as it is possible to be without the aid of a Saturn booster. My hosts lived in the Stone Age, perhaps a generation removed from head-hunting, but they seemed to me, on the whole, more civilized than those whey-faced, bleary tribesmen back in New York (some of my own savage people, long ago) who were busy honoring their particular heritage by vomiting in the gutters outside...
...particularly alarming flaw in the new system involves the procedure by which air traffic controllers warn pilots when a plane is on a collision course with, say, a catering truck: By the time both vehicles show up on the system, reaction time has been cut to seconds. Not the ideal situation if you're trying to stop a 150,000-pound...
Merrion Palmer lacks a critical quality of the ideal mistress: she is not pretty. What's more, in defiance of the old conventions, she is straightforward and independent. She is not Laura, the wife of Guy Stockdale, who sacrificed her identity to her marriage. Guy leaves Laura for Merrion, a choice that exposes the tenuousness of the bonds that hold his immediate family together. Trollope handles those connections with care, but at times it feels as though she, like every member of Guy's family, has chosen sides--and fallen a little in love with the mistress...
...owned by FAS, and with its proximity to the Yard and leafy green surroundings, Hemenway would be an ideal new home for College admissions...