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Technology isn't just stealing evolution's methods and embedding them in software. Companies are poking and prodding the fundamentals of the physical world. They are slinking down from the micron scale (one-millionth of a meter) to what is known as the nano scale, inhabited by devices that are less than 100 nanometers wide, or less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair...
...other bodies have been burning since dawn. The funeral pyres, once piled more than a meter high, are now nothing but smoldering heaps of ash and fragmented bone. A blackened skull is all that remains of one; on the other a heat-shriveled thigh juts out, still attached to a cracked pelvis bone. Curiously, there is no odor of burnt flesh or hair. The bodies, in preparation for burning, have been dipped in the Ganges. "The holy river purifies all beings," says Papu, spitting betel juice from between blackened teeth. "That is why there is no odor...
...daily life. Warriors prepare for battle, musicians tune their instruments and a dancer plucks a thorn from her foot. But it's the sex that put the temples on the tourist maps. Buxom apsaras, or celestial maidens, coyly cavort around the corners of each temple, flaunting their haunches, while meter-tall couples demonstrate their sexual prowess...
...national level, Siilats could not defend her indoor title in the high jump, as injuries limited her to 10th place. Her outdoor season was an improvement, though, as she qualified for her first outdoor NCAA meet with a 1.81-meter jump at Heps and placed a respectable sixth place with a 1.79-meter performance at the national meet at Baton Rogue...
Harvard wasn’t nearly as competitive on the track. Junior Melissa Tanner, whose 10th-place finish at Cross Country Heps led a Harvard team that placed seventh in the fall, took third in the 5,000-meter run. Co-captain Carrie McGraw placed second in the 400 and helped the 4x400 relay team to a second-place finish. That was all the Crimson could muster on the track, but it was just enough to propel the team to the runners-up slot...