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...collecting in revenue. But many commercial applications are in advanced stages of development or already on sale: handheld devices that can sense anthrax spores, hand cream that can protect us from them and computer chips that are faster, cheaper and cooler (we're talking temperature here, not hipness) and retain data even when the power is shut off. Says Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor and Nobel-prizewinning chemist: "We are only beginning to see the things nanotechnology...
...equal in their devotion to the movement. As the Taliban swept across the country in the mid 1990s, the group became an amalgam of true believers and those who sought protection, a salary and food. Many non-Taliban commanders capitulated to the movement rather than fight, in order to retain their power and their men. Among the people of Tirin Kot, there is a binding dedication to Islam but not to the specific brand preached by the Taliban and especially not to the extreme forms of punishment the group meted out in the name of Islam. And they distance themselves...
...School itself does not receive a large amount of federal funding, and Harvard would have been allowed to retain its federal student loan money even if in violation of the law, all other funds granted to the University by the federal government—including those provided for scientific research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and research at the Medical School—would have been...
...offers to create a comfortable home, albeit one the homeowner has to adjust periodically. For example, Murcutt's houses usually have a long, multilayered side facing north. Adjustable louvers, insect screens, moving glass panels and even thermal blinds can be opened to catch light and breezes or closed to retain warmth...
...School does not receive a large amount of federal funding, and Harvard would have been allowed to retain its federal student loan money even if in violation of the law. But all other funds granted to the University by the federal government, including those provided for scientific research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and medical research at the Medical School, would have been...