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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eureka! ... But What Is It? | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Beyond the Blue Chips | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Animal Planet | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: 5 Guilt-Filled Days on the Big R, for Ritalin | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...fact, the government has so far spent very little on new biodefense drugs, thanks in part to the long and torturous contracting process. Under BioShield, HHS has paid $5.7 million to buy black raspberry--flavored liquid potassium iodide, a child's version of a pill intended to protect against radioactive iodide in a dirty bomb. The agency is also spending $2.2 million on experimental anthrax treatments (although that money is not coming from the BioShield fund), and a contract for a new smallpox vaccine is expected in 2006. But more than a year into the program, drug companies still complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Spore Wars | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

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