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...President or Vice President in 2008, he says, but even his aides acknowledge that he doesn't intend to spend decades in the Senate. And he already looks the part. He dresses impeccably and carries his 6-ft. 2-in. frame with a liquid confidence. He's fully aware of his talents. "I probably always feel on some level I can persuade anybody I talk to," Obama told TIME...
...ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and solvents couldn't remove the compound, but Sherman also noticed it resisted dirt. So she and a colleague improved its liquid repellency, and three years later 3M sold it on the market as a suede protectant. In 1973 Sherman obtained a patent for it to preserve carpets...
WINE Interested in liquid assets? Instead of just saving a Cabernet and toasting its ripened value, investors can buy into various wine funds, such as the Australian Wine Index. An initial investment of about $5,000 includes shipping, insurance and storage...
...extension school, a DJ at local clubs, and a student pursuing his own research on complex topics in mathematical physics. Martinez has discovered an infinite class of transcendental numbers, co-discovered the largest base 7 prime in the world (which has 67,727 digits), synthesized a new liquid crystal, developed a globally bounded, nonlinear approximation/perturbation technique, and developed a graph theoretic understanding of the Somos-4 sequence. These cryptic achievements were listed in a brief biography of Martinez on the website for a summer science program called NKS Summer School.In spite of these whiz kid accomplishments, Martinez says that reversing...
...playing host to a 5-year-old's birthday party, with attendees who included Ella, Ella, Stella, Ale (pronounced Ellay), Elee (same) and Belle, the princess I had rented. I don't know if my suggestibility was caused by a surfeit of medication?in this case, Ritalin?or of liquid consonants, but I agreed...