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...work, I designed this kinked nanowire molecule by inserting joints into a straight backbone,” Tian said. “The segments and joints are quite similar to the chemical bonds and atoms in an organic molecule, although our material is almost four orders of magnitude larger in size...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chemistry Researchers Bend Nanowires | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Overall: B-. This snoozer of an episode almost got a straight C, but Emma and Sue are just too entertaining...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: Recap: “Mash-Up” | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...know, and I still half thought that he was faking. Some gasping syllable came out of my mouth just as I felt a tug on the still-connected headphones around my neck, and the release as momentum freed the iPod. It hit a metal trash can straight on, then skidded off into the street making with a sound like a row of people dropping their cell phones one after the other. None of this happened in slo-motion...

Author: By ROSS S. WEINSTEIN | Title: Kids These Days... | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

Catching up on sleep later was not an option either. Hill slept in this manner five days a week, for nearly seven months straight...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hill Goes To Great Lengths To Play | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...goal of skeet and trap shooting is to use a shotgun to hit clay pigeons thrown by an automatic thrower. In trap, shooters face a semicircular field and the pigeons are sent away from the shooter straight or angled toward the left or right. In skeet, shooters shift between seven positions on the semicircular field and targets are thrown to cross from a high house and a low house. Skeet is the more challenging...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: What Happens When You Give a Harvard Student a Gun? | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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