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...quantum theory says that a few electrons will jump anyway. Indeed they do, and since the number that jump depends on the size of the gap, the microscope's circuitry can continuously readjust the needle's height by monitoring the amount of current flowing between its tip and the object. The device "is completely new," said the Swedish Academy, "and we have so far only seen the beginning of its development...
...nature of the talks. Our object is to describe to each other not just that there are disagreements, but precisely what is the disagreement -- to focus on that and to try to energize people a little bit to work on those identified disagreements...
Advance men scoured the city for accommodations. "The object," said a White House aide, "is to get two men in a room." It was unclear if he was talking about getting the two leaders together or about doubling up reporters and staffers in a limited number of hotel rooms...
...years that followed, a strange situation developed around this inanimate object. Whenever the authorities did not like something, it was our car that suffered. Two tires would be punctured or a window smashed or smeared with a durable glue. If something like that happened to our car, we knew that we had done something bad by their standards: perhaps we had managed to talk to someone on the street or at the market, or had gone to the wrong place...
...full of wind-, gravity- or motor-powered contraptions that range from the balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward or disguised. The second, and by far more subtle, is to suggest the movement of the artist's eye as it scans and scrutinizes, to put together...