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Still, creating a diamond semiconductor is no easy feat. Rather than trying to mimic the conditions under which diamond is generated deep in the earth, Apollo, Element Six and most of the other leading diamondmakers are relying on a process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD). It's a low-pressure, high-temperature method that uses heat energy from plasma and a combination of gases to rain carbon atoms on a starter seed of the gem, which gradually grows into a larger single-crystal diamond. CVD produces a more uniform, consistent diamond in sizes large enough to make an effective transistor...
...often does. Unlike traditional hand-held video games, where users sit on the couch exercising little more than their thumbs, the Wii (pronounced "we" not "why") features digital sensors that let users virtually play the game. In Wii Sports, a game that comes with the console, users mimic the motions used in sports like bowling, tennis and baseball. In other words, the game may be virtual, but the physical exertion is very real...
...worse-than-mediocre performance while still paying 1% or 2% of assets and 20% of the profits to the managers. There is a cheaper alternative: just as Vanguard launched the first stock-index mutual fund in 1976, Wall Street firms are beginning to offer low-cost funds that mimic common hedge-fund strategies. The first get-together of this nascent "hedge-fund replication" industry is happening this month in London (official slogan: The clones have landed). Mediocrity doesn't have to be such a bad thing, as long as it's intentional...
...While bird lovers admire grackles for their iridescent feathers and canny ability to mimic human voices, for others they're a nuisance - dirty, noisy and a plague that has prompted cities and institutions across the country to declare war on the black clouds that roost in trees throughout the southern U.S. So when the black birds turned up dead, suspicions about a possible culprit exposed divisions that run deep across the country between the pro- and anti-grackle camps...
...Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) department of nutrition, the pressing specter of exams has effects on the body that go beyond sweaty palms. “The psychological stress of finals can result in significant alterations in eating, sleeping, and exercise patterns, which closely mimic what are thought of as more ‘physiologic’ stress patterns, such as starvation, illness, or infectious diseases,” Duggan wrote in an e-mail. Such stress patterns, according to Duggan, can lead to either a lowered appetite or an increase in food consumption...