Word: liquidation
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...goes according to plan, a team of Clemson researchers at the school's agricultural research station near Blackville, S.C., will sprinkle a murky white liquid teeming with billions of Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria on winter wheat seeds during planting. It should be easy enough to tell whether the invisible microorganisms survive and spread: the Pseudomonas bacteria have been altered by genetic engineers to turn a brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered...
Another "artistic" type of puzzle is the puzzle vessel. The idea is to try and find a way to drink the liquid from the vessel assigned to you without making a complete fool of yourself. Sounds simple, until you notice the holes in the sides of the cup near the lip of the vessel, making it impossible to drink in a normal manner...
...passage of electricity; since virtually no energy is lost, any electric device becomes far more efficient when built with superconductors. The catch is that superconductivity usually occurs only near 0 K (Kelvin), or -460 degrees F, which means the materials must be cooled by expensive, hard-to-handle liquid helium, thus sharply limiting practical applications...
...achieve superconductivity at even higher temperatures. Indeed, Paul C.W. Chu of the University of Houston and colleagues reached 98 K, or -283 degrees F, an achievement some physicists think should have earned Chu a share of the prize. That level of cooling can be achieved with more readily available liquid nitrogen. Suddenly, a wide range of applications seems economically feasible: trains that ride on a cushion of magnetism; smaller, faster supercomputers; more powerful medical imaging machines; and 100%-efficient power lines. The superfast train, notes Bednorz, "is a real dream of mine...
...first time I tasted it I thought I was going to be sick. The bitter black liquid was worse than the occasional sips I'd had of my father's beer...