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nanotube sheets
It looks like the field of nanotubes in the 21st century is looking as fertile as that of plastics in the 20th. The latest breakthrough is “nanotube sheets”:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8976160/, super-strong super-thin sheets with a whole list of promising applications. (Think “space elevator”:http://www.spaceelevator.com/, but that’s just one of them.)
all aboard the greasebus
this just in: ‘thou shalt not kill’ more a guideline
…at least according to “Pat Robertson”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez.1534/index.html.
Swift Boating Cindy Sheehan
The New York Times’ Frank Rich has written a compelling opinion piece called The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan, with specific emphasis on the (hopefully continued) failure of the Bush administration to contain growing dissent against the occupation of Iraq.