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...etch fluid channels into small blocks of metal and plastic, producing fluidic versions of electronic integrated circuits [TIME, Sept. 2]. Though they are still no match in size for the microscopically small electronic I.C.s, several compact fluidic circuits can now be interconnected and fitted into durable and compact inch-square wafers...
With the meet already safely won, Harvard eased up and lost both relays, missing a win in the 400 yard freestyle relay by an inch...
Another professor gazed gloomily across his office at a pair of three-inch folders. "I look over there and see 14 pounds of notes for a single course," he shook his head, "and I say it's too much...
...seasons, took ice-cube-and-hot-water treatments before every pitching turn last year; even with pills and injections, he suffered so badly that any fan could see the agony on his face. His pitching arm eventually grew so crooked that he had to shorten his sleeves an inch on the left side...
Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the middle of a Viet Cong position 385 yds. away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect...