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...Iraq. Baghdad has thus embarked on a strategy of purchasing the technology and materials necessary to construct its own centrifuges. Tales abound of secretive transfers of nuclear- related technology -- some completed and some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation foiled an attempt by Iraqi agents to ship to Iraq through London's Heathrow Airport U.S.-made electronic...
...alternative, explained Busby, is to use avegetable protein matrix that mimicks the responseof the human cornea. Another alternative is totest cosmetics on processed human skin patches,currently available on the market. Both methodsare also much cheaper than the outdatedanimal-testing methods, Busby added...
...Zygmunt Plater, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, emphasized the importance of the American legal system in promoting world-wide environmental reform. "United States law [regarding environmental protection] is the dominating model for global environmental reform," Plater said. "For the past 20 years, American law has created a matrix for the world to follow...
...Hudlin bros hail from East St. Louis, Ill., where they were nurtured, says Reginald, "in a matrix of black folk culture. Brother Joe May, a famous gospel singer, lived two doors down on one side, and Ike and Tina Turner lived two doors down the other side. It was sort of heaven and hell, equidistant." + The Hudlins emigrated to two matrices of official culture -- Warrington went to Yale, Reginald to Harvard -- but as filmmakers they wanted to return home. "When we went to parties, this funny stuff would happen," Reginald says. "I promised my friends that one day I would...
...these things? Anonymous structures of oats and wheat, circular, with conical tops. They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking into excited flurries of crimson and blue; sometimes they are dirty brown, between the inert pewter sky of winter and the white crust of snow...