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...with computer displays, looks more like the inside of a highflying jet cockpit than a mud-churning battlefield beast. Each system is actually two vehicles--the tracked business end topped with a turret and 155-mm gun, and a resupply vehicle carrying ammo and fuel. The gun's unique liquid-cooled barrel and automatic loading system allow it to fire 10 rounds a minute up to 25 miles, overwhelming the four-round, 18-mile range of the Paladin, the howitzer it is slated to replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blasting the Crusader | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...example, one amateur proposed to study the facial expression of gophers under extreme pain by developing a device that would chop the animals' heads off the moment they emerged from their holes and drop them directly into a vat of liquid nitrogen so that their expressions would be preserved...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Helping Small-Time Scientists Answer Big Questions | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Endangered Species, is the driving force behind a 25-year effort to assemble a bank of frozen dna, eggs and sperm from endangered species. Under his direction, the frozen zoo now has living cells from 5,400 animals spanning more than 400 species and subspecies, cultured and frozen in liquid nitrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noah's New Ark | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...coolness. But while there are some absolutely amazing songs on Hotline-such as "Wharf Me" and the first single, a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better,"-the album as a whole is more for already established Gomez fans. A better starting point would be their second LP Liquid Skin. B+ -Daniel D. Raper...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

Backstreet Boys isn't ready for the wine cellar yet. But the group seems tired of being the liquid refreshment of choice on schoolkids' lunch trays. The Boys' new CD, Black & Blue (Jive), is a half-hearted attempt to leave the never-never land of teen pop for the always-always land of established pop icons. Two of the boys (Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson) are married, and the entire group (rounded out by Nick Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough) seems to have more than puppy love in mind. You get the sense that, like most teen bands, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where The Boys Are | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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