Word: motion
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...pier in crowded waters isn't easy--particularly when the ship has to back in. The tension is evident from the cries of the crew. "Put the bridge right there where the orange sign is!" the skipper barks at a rookie officer. "Slow your motion," the captain snaps, using the clipped lingo of command. "Steer your...
Some migrations are forced at gunpoint. Others are set in motion by the global economy. Money is dynamite, and it can scatter people better than mortar fire. The world is well into the second Industrial Revolution, in which the developed nations have gone dotcom and service. Smokestack industry and light manufacturing have moved to the Third World, and farmers have been displaced by the transformation of family agriculture into corporate agribusiness. As workers everywhere have moved off somewhere else, looking for the headwaters of the global-money flows, oversize cities have exploded. Landless Philippine farmers pack into Manila, jobless Moroccans...
Marcus' research involves work with electron motion and submicron electronic devices, which have applications to computing information and technology...
...thing. We're not alienated at all. Here we are, roaring into the 21st century, powered by the longest economic boom in U.S. history, wired to the Web and to one another, thirstily consuming new technology even before we know how to use it. In the frenzy of perpetual motion we want to re-create the space around us, not as our only joy but because we can, and because that way it's our space. We're snapping up translucent blueberry-tinted computers, bubbled cars and little chrome cell phones as fast as they can be produced...
...pilot study suggests that they may not relieve anything but your wallet. Patients wore either a real magnet or a fake--neither the subjects nor the researchers knew which--every other day for six hours. After a week, there was no statistically significant difference in pain or range of motion between the two groups. But don't demagnetize yet. Longer and larger studies are still needed...