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...motors suitable for everything from power windows to dolls with nuanced facial expressions. "I like to be on the wave of the next insanely great thing," he says. His motors work because the alloy nitinol can assume different shapes as its temperature fluctuates. An electrical current causes a nitinol wire in the device to shorten, allowing the linear motor to contract like a human muscle but at 1,000 times the strength. That's a simple task but an important one, and one MacGregor believes can reach markets worth $3.8 billion. The NanoMuscle, which costs less than $1 to make...
...Siddique was not heading to a public rally but to a private war?to join Islamic militants fighting for Kashmir, to kill Indians, perhaps to avenge his father. It was a journey marked by blood and sweat: four months of intensive guerrilla training, crawling through barbed-wire obstacle courses, running up and down peaks, target practice, planting mines, making bombs?and, later, real killing. And it was a journey that would end in tears in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir, at the high-security prison of the state's dreaded counterinsurgency special ops division...
...attendants concede that the crew made some mistakes. They didn't retrieve Reid's shoes until 30 minutes after he was subdued. Then the crew's first reserve officer brought the shoes into the cockpit. Thinking there was a knife inside, he found instead a wire protruding--and a burn mark. Hastily, the crew put both shoes in a safe place reserved on all planes for bomb disposal. The FBI later reported that one shoe had enough plastic explosives to blow a hole in the plane's fuselage. "Yet nobody went and curled up into a ball in the corner...
...Bankers themselves aren't inspiring much faith. Mizuho?the product of a merger between Fuji Bank, Industrial Bank of Japan and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank?only opened its doors in April. It was immediately beset by problems when thousands of Mizuho customers using ATMs to wire cash found that tthe money had been deducted twice from their accounts. Then Japanese utilities sued after Mizuho's computers botched standing orders to pay monthly electricity, phone and gas bills. Because Mizuho handles the Tokyo city government's payroll and tax collection, Ishihara dispatched inspectors to examine the bank's books and management...
...shooting in Beijing costs as little as half of what it would cost in Hollywood. Equally critical, choosing to work in China made it easier?financially and logistically?to assemble the region's finest martial artists. Yuen Wo-ping?a master known to international audiences for his wire work on recent martial arts blockbusters Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, was hired to choreograph the fight scenes, reviving material that appeared on his r?sum? 20 years ago. Venerable Japanese screen idol Sonny Chiba is both cast member and combat coach...