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...fluid pressure to coax nanowires into place. Grier wrote in an e-mail that applications of the HOT technique “range from performing surgery within living cells to fundamental investigations of many-body statistical physics”—the investigation of large-scale motion of many small particles. “HOT micromanipulation provides unprecedented access to and control over the microscopic world,” he wrote. While no one is yet sure how to build a new generation of microchips from nanowires, chips with some nanoelectronic components may be available in the foreseeable future...
...nail should not be in too far but just far enough for it to stand up straight. Each person then claims the nail in front of them and grabs two cans of beer. The game begins when the first player flips the hammer upwards in a 360-degree motion, catches it, and then attempts to hit one of the other players nails, all in one single, fluid motion. The person whose nail has been hit is then forced to drink their beer in proportion to the damage inflicted. The game ends when all the nails are hammered into the Stump...
...Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas Every Burton film is Halloween scary and candy-cane sweet. So it's appropriate that the fevered imagineer (Beetlejuice, the Batman films, Edward Scissorhands) dreamed up this stop-motion fable about a Halloween ghoul who wants to play Santa Claus. Directed by Henry Selick, Nightmare is Disney's weirdest cartoon ever: chilly, rollicking, endlessly inventive. And it's animated by Danny Elfman's magical-spookical score. Is this the first Hollywood musical to set every one of its 10 songs in a minor...
...money -- all of these factors swirling around in a kind of Brownian motion. Certainly one of the forces behind peace in both the Middle East and South Africa was what one observer called ''a biological compulsion'' in all four men to reach a settlement. Mandela is 75, De Klerk 57, Rabin 71 and Arafat 64. ''They were aware they did not have much time left,'' says William Quandt, who was at the National Security Council during the 1978 Camp David negotiations. ''And if they waited, history would write about them as people who had missed a chance to end their...
...then Oxford, where he admits staying “far too long” first studying, then teaching, then spending “the last year on the dole” doing little for the school, but sharing ideas (and rooms) with Andrew Motion, now UK Poet Laureate.Not surprisingly, nearly all of Hollinghurst’s principal characters are gay, British, highly educated men. He admits being something of a “lazy bones” in the surface similarities of the characters to each other and to himself, but denies ever transposing real people into his fiction, with...