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...Catholic Church of the time began stressing individual piety and the spiritual reality that underlies appearances. El Greco's work, with its distortions for emotional effect and etiolated figures hovering in nonphysical space, reflects this. He even deforms eyes, and may have invented the ecstatic upward glance with a liquid highlight that can be seen on the strangely conical eyeballs of Mary Magdalen in Penitence (early 1580s). Not just a saint, she is also a symbol of repentance: a state of mind the church wished to encourage in its followers...
...costly procedures. For plastic surgeons and dermatologists, medi-spas are an opportunity to go retail, with fees determined by the market rather than an insurance company. Cash or credit card, please. "There is no big chain operator, but someone very soon is going to recognize the opportunity for a liquid gold mine," says Light...
...because of what it means for the possibility of Martian life. Martian water, once purified, ought to be as useful for drinking and bathing as earthly water. What's more, since water is merely hydrogen and oxygen and since it's hydrogen that provides the propulsive fire in some liquid-fuel engines and oxygen that keeps those flames burning, breaking the two elements apart in a Mars-based fuel distillery could provide everything necessary to refill the tanks of a spacecraft once it arrives on the Red Planet. Oxygen produced on Mars could also be used as breathable atmosphere...
...aren't working--such as gas delivered in cylinders for welding and metal fabrication--and retraining workers whenever possible so that they can move into growth industries. Truck drivers who used to just transport gases to industrial customers, for example, are being trained for the delicate task of administering liquid helium to the magnets in MRI scanners. "There are many manufacturing firms that are out of ideas," Meldrum says. "The easiest thing to go after is cost...
...frightening plans involve his desire to employ unconventional weapons. His most prized possession, he says, is a cache of 82mm mortar rounds. Mohammed displays one of the rounds and proclaims, "This is a chemical mortar." Encased in a green storage tube with a flip-lock lid, the weapon has liquid sloshing inside a bulbous head reeking with a putrid odor that burns the nostrils. The Russian markings on the weapon identify it as a TD-42 liquid, high-explosive mortar. It's impossible to know what is really in the device or if the boasts of Abu Ali and Mohammed...