Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder the prospect of artificial muscles has NASA, well, pumped. Traditional robots, even in today's miniature sizes, draw heavily from the limited power supplies on a space probe, and their weight translates into higher launch costs. Bar-Cohen says the components required to construct each strip of artificial muscle cost a total of $200, need just four volts of power and weigh only a fraction of an ounce. Says Rob Manning, chief engineer for nasa's Mars Lander missions: "With all of our basketball-sized spacecraft, we're going to need this kind of technology...
Installation was straightforward, Blum says. It took him about two hours to link up the two computers and a laser printer in his home office. The necessary power cords, adapters and software all came in one box. He plugged power cords into the backs of each computer and the printer, attached the sandwich-size adapters to the opposing ends and plugged them into regular electrical outlets. (The $150 kit also came with extra power strips.) He then installed the software, provided on one CD-ROM, into both PCs. "This was definitely something we were looking for," he says...
...bombers. When Felipe was in a New York prison, where communication was much less restrained, he allegedly managed to organize gangland hits in the outside world. Hence his transfer to the imposed silence of Supermax. All that, however, has been debilitating, says Felipe's lawyer, Lawrence Feitell. "His power of speech is deteriorating." Could this murderous quartet become Four Characters in Search of a Talk Show? Feitell doubts they will be chums, but "in their universe they are the last four people on earth." Frankly, they all deserve one another...
...looked promising. His awkwardness and reticence with reporters might be portrayed as enigmatic, as might his absolutely deadpan demeanor on the field. And advance word from DiMaggio's minor league exploits with the San Francisco Seals was that he could, in baseball parlance, "do it all": hit, hit for power, run, field and throw...
Only 361 home runs? Forget about his ability to hit for average as well as power. Forget that at DiMaggio's retirement, only four men had ever hit as many home runs. Focus instead on those three large numerals inscribed on the left-center-field wall in Yankee Stadium when DiMaggio played there--4 5 7--denoting the preposterous footage from home plate to the seats. For a right-handed power hitter, it marked the outer limits of a place where potential homers went to die. No right-handed Yankee hit nearly as many home runs as DiMaggio until...