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On a cold Chicago day in the late 1990s, physicist David Grier was fiddling around in his laboratory with a cheap piece of plastic and a laser. Grier and a graduate student named Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap" - a device that splits a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bio Diversity | 12/5/2004 | See Source »

He is a year away from marketing protein-based drugs to treat arthritis and multiple sclerosis. For the luckier Pioneers like Grier and Dufresne, the distance between the initial "Eureka!" moment and a marketable business can be breathtakingly brief. It's true that they were not the first to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bio Diversity | 12/5/2004 | See Source »

Before the attack, planners employed an array of high-tech sensors to plot the location of booby traps, then used precision strikes to take them out

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storming Fallujah | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

Insurgents set booby traps throughout the city. One type of those improvised devices is made by wiring a cell phone to an artillery shell and burying it in the street. The device is detonated by dialing the phone

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storming Fallujah | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

Shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday night, Alpha Company paved the road into Fallujah. Engineers used a minesweeper to shoot forward 100-yd. lines of C-4 explosive to destroy or trigger any booby traps in its path. Battle tanks followed a channel marked in chemical lights, taking positions on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Hot Zone | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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