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...graduate student at the University of Chicago in the late 1970s, he baffled peers by enthusiastically throwing himself into the study of topoisomerases--the enzymes whose job it is to twist circular DNA molecules into tight coils. No one knew how the twisting occurred until Brown, playing with a rubber band, realized that by creating a break in the band, curling the opened band into a figure eight, then resealing the loose ends, he could introduce two twists into the rubber band for every split. "Everybody laughed and thought I was crazy," Brown recalls. But as it turned out, that...
...come thanks to Tiger Woods and his sponsor, Nike. The Swoosh got into the golf-ball business on the cheap three years ago and, remarkably, has already pulled down 5% of the market. Part of Nike's secret is a simple technological shift to a solid-core rubber ball, which travels considerably farther than the conventional ball, made of wound rubber bands. Other companies have moved to similar balls. Titleist's Pro V1 solid-core balls are now so popular that they are being rationed to retailers...
...city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires that eclipse the midday sun and loses focus after miles of palm oil and rubber plantations. The only constant is a Caltex pipeline, gray and monotonous, elevated just high enough so that families have to climb either under or over it to reach their homes from the road. It's just another reminder that the land's riches are going somewhere else...
...strength. They are a high-powered crowd--music executives, a state senator, a former Tennessee deputy education commissioner--who originally saw Hope's illness as a medical challenge to be overcome. As she declined, however, they recast her fate as a call to radical faith. "With Hope, the rubber met the road," says member Wayne Buchanan. "At a time like this, you either believe or not." He says the group finally concluded that "we will go down with the ship, believing in our hearts that God is in control." Some thought this recommitment may have been part...
Zenji Abe was a 25-year-old Zero pilot on his first mission when he attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He continued flying bombing raids until June 1944, when he was shot down and stranded on the Mariana Islands. On Sept. 2, 1945, he paddled a rubber raft to a U.S. ship offshore and signed his recognition of Japan's surrender...