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...marriage, Emily considered that the thing of real value she gave her husband was complete freedom to pursue his art. A more disingenuous conclusion is hard to imagine, given Ned's lack of emotional support over many decades. It is Ridley's achievement that she navigates impartially through this minefield. But a reader may justifiably decide that the achitect achieved fame despite his wife...
...discovery—and eventual profitability—is much slower than with easy-to-manufacture microchips. Products such as drugs take decades to pass through strict government reviews. Europeans refuse to eat genetically engineered food. Biotechnology is less of a Silicon Valley-style gold rush than a minefield where only the truly exceptional companies can turn a profit before they burn through all their capital...
...earthquake or the crumbling sandstone cliff above it. Either way, it has apparently been saved from the Taliban's predations centuries later. Jean-FranCois Jarrige, director of the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, was in Bamiyan recently, walking gingerly along a path cleared in the minefield above the supposed resting place of the reclining Buddha. "We have mine detectors, but so far no Buddha detector has been invented yet," he mused. "We'll just have to dig for it once we've completely studied the site...
...remotely piloted rodents that navigate complex terrain at the will of controllers who are more than 500 yards away. Wearing tiny backpacks equipped with radio transmitters and miniature TV cameras, the rats could someday be sent into a collapsed building to find survivors, say the scientists, or into a minefield to sniff out danger or off on a spy mission...
...popularity. Metheny and the Group worked their way through 20 years worth of repertoire and a seemingly endless line of guitars, including a mutant hybrid monster that fused the bodies of a standard six-string guitar, a lute and a zither. While Metheny adeptly negotiated his way through a minefield of special effects pedals, the sheer variety of guitars he handled bordered on sensory overload. To mix textures while keeping musical flow on “As It Is,” he moved from a guitar strapped to a stand to one slung over his back. He then swapped...