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Female celebrities do yoga. Male celebrities paint. These are the rules; don't ask us why. They are so rigorous, however, that even relatively dormant celebs like MATTHEW MODINE must follow them, as we learned last week when several of the Full Metal Jacket star's paintings, believed to have been stolen more than a decade ago, were discovered in a New York City apartment. An N.Y.P.D. detective noticed a painting of Modine with Birdy co-star Nicolas Cage in a Chinatown apartment. After climbing a fire escape to get a closer look, he obtained a search warrant. Seven Modine...
...next step was to thread a tiny surgical balloon and a thin stainless-steel stent into the artery to forcibly widen the passage. After the balloon was deflated, the metal mesh of the stent was left in place to keep the artery open. During this procedure the results from Cheney's second blood test became available. It showed a slight increase in the cardiac enzymes, indicating that Cheney had suffered a mild heart attack after...
...METAL MISCHIEF As if pregnant women don't have enough to worry about. Moms-to-be with low levels of calcium in their blood usually draw on reserves stored in bone. The problem? That's exactly where the body's excess lead is also locked away. Consequently, the heavy metal is also released into the bloodstream, where it can travel to the fetus and impair mental development. Older expectant moms face the biggest risk because they have that many more years of accumulated lead in their bones. What to do? Keep calcium levels high during pregnancy with dairy foods, leafy...
Tucked away in an unremarkable industrial building on the outskirts of town is a little machine about the size of a three-drawer filing cabinet. There's a curious Willy Wonka look to it. Feed a bit of metal powder into its maw, and after a moment of whirring and digesting, it spits out, say, a valve for a diesel engine or a gear for a car transmission or a pump component for a hot tub. It's an odd bit of industrial alchemy to watch--mere dust transforming itself into highly refined hardware...
...measure, a renaissance in manufacturing is long overdue. Traditional powder presses are not the only low-tech way parts have been built over the years; stamping machines, casting machines and forging machines are used to melt or muscle metal into shape. Not only are these machines imprecise, they are also fantastically expensive and hard to come by. A start-up company that wants to manufacture parts for a new product may have to wait two years for a press to be built and delivered. Not exactly the quick turnaround time we've come to expect in the age of silicon...