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...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make...
...that will solve it within minutes. If it's a complex combination of letters and numbers, that may take an hour or so. There is software that will hijack your desktop and cursor--and you won't even know about it. Hacking doesn't require much hardware; even a Palm Pilot can do it. What protection do you have? "Minimize enticements," say the teachers. If you don't want to be a victim of information rape, in other words, don't let your network give out so many details to strangers...
Opening the show with four songs from their eponymous debut, Ireland's B*Witched had the excited crowd in the palm of their hands with their twee brand of Girl Power. This foursome inevitably encourages comparisons to the Spice Girls and All Saints. However, their youthful exuberance (the oldest member of the group is 19, the youngest 17) and enchanting Irish jigging showed that this group has a definite niche in the girl group genre...
...Opening the show with four songs from their eponymous debut, Ireland's B*Witched had the excited crowd in the palm of their hands with their twee brand of Girl Power. This foursome inevitably encourages comparisons to the Spice Girls and All Saints. However, their youthful exuberance (the oldest member of the group is 19, the youngest 17) and enchanting Irish jigging showed that this group has a definite niche in the girl group genre...
Parents with big purses may want to stay--or dine at least once--at the Plaza, well known to the younger set as the residence of Kay Thompson's mischievous Eloise, whose portrait (by Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight) overlooks the hotel's Palm Court. There, modern-day urchins can order kid-friendly delectables like Home Alone Sundaes and s'mores...