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Made with Love I loved your article "A Handmade World" [Jan. 25]. People often ask me why I chose to do mechanical engineering and not computers or electronics. And I always have to find words to explain that I like to see things happening. I like to see the pistons being pushed by steam, or objects moving as a result of a force, instead of working with wires where you can't see the resistance or compilers and processors executing algorithms. This article has given a single word to my long explanation - I am a steampunk. Manav Sachdeva, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH...
...Made with Love I loved your article "A Handmade World" [Jan. 25]. People often ask me why I chose to do mechanical engineering and not computers or electronics. And I always have to find words to explain that I like to see things happening. I like to see the pistons being pushed by steam, or objects moving as a result of a force, instead of working with wires where you can't see the resistance or compilers and processors executing algorithms. This article has given a single word to my long explanation - I am a steampunk. Manav Sachdeva Johannesburg, South...
...JAN BERTOFT, of the Swedish Consumer's Association, on the European Union's approval of the use of thrombin, a product that can glue pieces of meat together to make a single slab...
Fahl was scheduled to leave Wellspring on Jan. 15, but he was still struggling with the program, and DeShon didn't think he was ready to come home. Two days before his departure, she told him he had to stay. "I did my part," Fahl complained. "Why can't I lose the rest of the weight at home...
...that tracks such attacks. The spike was triggered in part by a Dec. 30 suicide attack that killed seven CIA officials at an Afghan outpost. The Haqqani network and Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud apparently aided the suicide bomber; some reports say Mehsud was wounded, possibly killed, in a Jan. 14 strike. Meanwhile, the remote-control pilots operating Predators and Reapers continue to peer at their video screens, hoping to catch sight of a very tall, thin, bearded man emerging from a hideout. (See pictures of Osama Bin Laden...