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...person? 9. Like Moses, Pope saw the Promised Land from here 10. Essay page 11. Abdoulaye __, who has been elected Senegal's President 16. "That feels good!" 20. Meth. or Luth. 21. Sudan's rebel gp. 22. Where the Eagle landed 23. They're backing 15-Across 24. Wing: prefix 25. They expect to boost output 27. Venetian blind 29. Shi'ite leader 30. Portrait artist's "Done!" 31. __ Nicole Claunch (first woman to be appointed battalion commander at VMI) 36. Magnolia sound-track song 38. Makes a new version in yet another language 40. Dazed and confused 41. Prom...
...Cass Elliot was one 22. China won't relinquish its right to use force here 24. Went white 25. Arbitrator Shyam __, who halved Rocker's suspension 26. Women's patriotic org. 27. Airline that's going Chapter 11 30. Kind of profiling at issue 33. Score after deuce 34. Prefix with chloride or oxide 35. First name at the Fed 37. Kunstler protege Kuby 38. Oakland mayor who's backing Gore 40. Horner's last words 41. "__ primary" (in which voters cross party lines) 43. O'Neill title character 45. Flashing lights, say 46. Island of southeast Greece 47. Connecticut...
...terminal listing 32 Exile of 1979 36 Heartsick one 38 Verboten 39 Apple-pie order 41 Name in court decision supported by Gore, Bradley 43 Wacko 44 Shopaholics' meccas 45 __ Blue (show that firefighters want boycotted) 47 One of Elian's grandmothers 50 Warner Music chairman Ames 53 Environmental prefix 54 __ Service (Melisse Shapiro e-novel) 55 Give the slip to 56 Use a keyhole 57 Agent's take 58 Targets for McNair...
...CHARA IS A CARTOON CHARACTER. CB, FROM THE JAPANESE WORD FOR SMALL, SUGGESTS CHILD'S BODY; IT IS OFTEN USED AS A PREFIX. KAMI IS A GOD OR GODDESS. CAN CAN BUNNY IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF A MANGA SERIES. MECHA REFERS TO ANY KIND OF MECHANIZED HARDWARE--A GUN, A ROBOT, A SPACESHIP. SD MEANS SUPER DEFORMED. KAIJU IS A MONSTER. OAV STANDS FOR ORIGINAL ANIME VIDEO (ONE NOT MADE FOR THEATERS OR TV). OTAKU IS AN OBSESSIVE FAN OR COLLECTOR--AN ANIMANIAC. AN OST IS AN ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK...
Such are the dreams of the nanotechnologists, engineers at places like M.I.T., Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon, who are already redefining the meaning of the word miniature. The prefix nano- refers to a billionth part of a unit--the size range these visionaries are talking about. Already, nanotechnologists have built gears and rotors far thinner than a human hair and tiny molecular "motors" only 50 atoms long...