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...extremist bubble - but there may be enough of them raising dust to render creative public policy impossible. Some righteous anger seems called for, but that's not Obama's style. He will have to come up with something, though - and he will have to do it without the tiniest scintilla of help from the Republican Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Has Become a Party of Nihilists | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the FBI continued to focus its research on Dr. Steven Hatfill, another scientist at Fort Detrick. It proved a consuming distraction. Earlier this year, a federal judge found "not one scintilla of evidence" linking Hatfill to the anthrax mailings, and the government settled with Hatfill in June, agreeing to pay him $2.83 million and an annuity of $150,000. It was not until 2004 that FBI agents realized that Ivins had not given them the exact sample of anthrax they had requested, so an agent went to the lab and confiscated a flask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Anthrax Files | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...worked at the very same research lab. Hatfill's name had been leaked to the media as a primary suspect during the years-long bioterrorism investigation. He was never arrested nor charged, and when he sued the government for ruining his career, a federal judge found "not a scintilla of evidence" linking Hatfill to the mailings. Hatfill's lawyer, Thomas Connolly, said neither he nor his client had any comment on Ivins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Anthrax Mystery Deepens | 8/2/2008 | See Source »

...Matalin: I won't even pretend that I have one scintilla of understanding of it. But we're really into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carville and Matalin in High School | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

Luckily for him, the quality and properties of his pet project speak for themselves. What Lath and his team of engineers and architects do is alter the composition of concrete and plastic. To create the Scintilla tiles, hundreds of light-conducting channels are carved into a transparent block of clear or pigmented polymer. These channels act like fiber-optic filaments, giving the material the ability to magically shift, shimmer and ripple in response to movement and changes in light intensity. As a result, the tiles react to shadows and moving lights and accordingly disperse them on the tiles' surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting-Edge Ceramics: Playing Tricks With Textures | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

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