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Harvard's credo is similar to that of George Bailey in the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life, who says to his friends in sleepy Bedford Falls, "I'm going to shake the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I'm gonna see the world!" Harvard, for most of us, is the place where the last of that dust finally shakes loose and wider vistas open before us. Who needs Christmas when you can retire...
...purpose is not to have people laughing, it is to teach important points," he said. "If [my lectures] have got to be dry as dust, then that's the right thing to do," he said...
...tell you how many labs I go by where there's dust that high on the computer keyboard," Watson says. "What we haven't done is give kids a reason to get excited about using the computer." And the only reason that works, in the Watson world view, is naked self-interest. He may be right. There's certainly no dust on the keyboards at John O'Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior...
...that's not all. One day, autonomous "nanobots" far smaller than motes of dust will patrol the body, repairing aging organs and fixing genetic damage before it can turn into disease. But nanomedicine is still in its infancy, cautions Carol Dahl, co-director of the NCI/NASA collaboration. "Most of the work we're seeing out there right now asks, What are the widgets we can build? Next, the question will be, How can we apply them to solve specific problems?" Mihail Roco, adviser to the National Science Foundation's $150 million nanotechnology initiative, believes we will have an answer soon...
...metal powder into its maw, and after a moment of whirring and digesting, it spits out, say, a valve for a diesel engine or a gear for a car transmission or a pump component for a hot tub. It's an odd bit of industrial alchemy to watch--mere dust transforming itself into highly refined hardware...