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What single issue proved the most politically deadly in this campaign? A bill to create a Department of Homeland Security. Who'd have thunk it? It had the appearance of mere bureaucratic shuffling. It had none of the drama of the war-and-peace Iraq vote. Democrats figured they could safely block the bill over a dispute about job protection. Big mistake. Republicans made the issue into a surrogate for post-9/11 national security. Everyone supports the war on terror. The homeland-security bill, however, made the platitude concrete by asking the question: Are you ready to put antiterrorism...
...keep track of everything in the world at once--steaming rain forests in Bolivia, factories in Mexico belching smoke, the jet stream, the Gulf Stream, the works. What's more, they dared to build it. On March 11, 2002, when they turned it on, the engineers did something no mere mortal had ever done before: they created the Earth...
...face it, vacuuming sucks. That's why a group of M.I.T. brainiacs created Roomba, a robot that vacuums your house for you. Running on rechargeable batteries, Roomba roams your house entirely on its own, swooping up dust bunnies and stray Cheerios and zipping under beds and couches where mere humans can't reach. Its sensors keep it from bumping into walls and furniture or falling off staircases. When it finishes a room, Roomba beeps proudly and turns itself off. INVENTOR iRobot AVAILABILITY Now, $199 TO LEARN MORE www.roombavac.com...
...substance called aerogel, invented in the 1930s but recently refined by NASA, has been certified as the lightest solid in the world--yes, it's in the Guinness Book of World Records. Weighing in at a mere .00011 lbs. per cu. in. (thin air weighs about .00004 lbs. per cu. in.), aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place--it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless. It's also surprisingly tough. Chemically similar to glass, aerogel is used on the space shuttle to trap tiny spaceborne particles traveling at high speed so they can be brought back to Earth...
...only events the Crimson swimmers failed to win were the 100 free, the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard individual medley, but these were mere hiccoughs in an otherwise blemish-free performance...