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That could change, because the mission to asteroid 4660 Nereus has thrust artificial muscles into the limelight. Whereas human limbs move by contracting and relaxing muscles, Bar-Cohen's artificial variety bends in response to electricity. Apply a charge to one side of a strip, and ions within the polymer are pushed to the opposite side, effectively lengthening one surface while shortening the other...
...communism thrust the principle of self-determination back into prominence, and new states proliferated. In the thrill of cold war victory, the West let captive nations in Eastern Europe grab back their independence and happily pushed statehood for the 14 republics inside the Soviet Union that wanted out. In consequence, independence and separatist movements weaving together ethnic, linguistic, cultural, religious and economic self-interests have blossomed worldwide. As Robert Lansing, Wilson's Secretary of State, warned, self-determination "is bound to be the basis for impossible demands and create trouble in many lands. What a calamity that the phrase...
...Hands thrust deeply into our pockets, we silently traversed a dilapidated alley as the sky darkened and ware-houses loomed ominously on either side. It began to drizzle, and I realized I had been shivering since we crossed the Fort Point Channel. The silence bore down on me, and I glanced at my younger brother. I coughed, exhaling a steamy breath, and noticed that the streetlights made a jagged series of shadows on the adjacent building as we walked. I had the strange feeling that we were in, well, an underground film...
...Clinton impeachment, for instance, thrust many Harvard professors into the forefront of the national discourse...
...have failed to get into any medical school. Tuition is the only requirement for acceptance. Isolated and outside the jurisdiction of American law, Queen's is "the boot camp of medical schools," motivating its students by any means necessary--namely bullying and psychological abuse. According to the publicist, thrust into this atmosphere Jane somehow manages to "retreat deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes," eventually emerging determined to succeed. This book is really a high school pre-med's fairy tale disguised as a Bildungsroman...