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...accounts," Arizona Republican Sen. John Kyl snapped "personal accounts." The surprised reporter corrected herself, saying "personal accounts,? and only then did Kyl answer the question. Later that day, Democratic Senator Harry Reid, asked about Bush's plan for "personal accounts," riffed about how the reporter had fallen into a trap laid by Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster who reportedly advises the party on word choice, and then ripped Bush's plan for "private accounts...
...that what is clearly not a promising relationship might, one day, turn good. The women depicted in its pages are, in short, desperately insecure and depressingly desperate. Before they read the book, Michelle T. Sonia ’06 and her roommates felt they had fallen into a similar trap...
...says??there's??no??such??thing??as??a??eureka??moment? Physicist David Grier sure had one. Grier and graduate student Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap"--a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. They knew that multiple traps, used in tandem, could let scientists play traffic cops on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts--removing bacteria from blood, for example. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick...
That aha! has paid off. Soon afterward, in 2000, Grier co-founded Arryx, an optical-equipment company whose laser gear can grab, trap and move minute particles of just about anything. The firm expects to make a profit this year--impressive progress for a biotech start-up. Arryx is one of 29 "Technology Pioneers" chosen by the World Economic Forum, the Geneva-based nonprofit organization best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which opens this year on Jan. 26. Others on the pioneers list--including technologists in the fields of energy, biotech and information--have become entrepreneurs...
...Arryx, Grier and Dufresne's 16-trap breakthrough was so exciting that the University of Chicago, where they were based, showcased their work to Lewis Gruber, a biotech entrepreneur and patent lawyer. Within months, he had invested in the technology, and Arryx was born, with Gruber as chief executive. Grier, who is now a professor at New York University, is the company's chief scientific adviser. Grier and company have long since replaced the plastic with a liquid-crystal device, which they build into a small, box-shaped machine that you could call a cell catcher. The technology is used...