Word: skill
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...seemed for much of his life unaffected by the world around him, that may have been an advantage, considering the world he lived in. He avoided the Viet Nam War, but he also ignored much that led to Viet Nam. Inattentiveness is sometimes a survival skill. Quayle's pugnacious father did not always agree with Quayle's more famous grandfather, Eugene Pulliam, and among Pulliams it matters from which wife of Eugene one is descended (he had three). When the 17-year-old Quayle thought of siding with his father against his grandfather on behalf of family friend Barry Goldwater...
Since the sport requires no special skill or physical conditioning, the challenge is strictly psychological. Veteran jumpers like to tease newcomers by telling them it's not the fall they should be afraid of, but hitting the ground. Some participants describe the experience as "death survived." Susan Steade, 27, a San Jose writer, made two jumps in the summer of 1988. Says she: "Skydiving was a lot less scary." Lance Colvin, 30, a computer specialist in Santa Clara, Calif., is a veteran of 50 leaps. "You get sweaty palms, cotton mouth," he says. "But the jump...
...remarkable demonstration of the precision with which single atoms can now be manipulated, a skill that could conceivably be used someday to build atom-size transistors or to custom-design molecules. Using an instrument called a scanning tunneling microscope and working on a surface chilled to near absolute zero, researchers Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer were able to get individual atoms to respond to the magnet-like tug of a fine tungsten needle. But don't expect to see atom-etching booths at your local science fair. It took 22 hours to haul 35 xenon atoms across the bumpy nickel...
Stone. Bronze. Oil on canvas. This is the durable stuff that heavy-duty art history is made of. For more than three decades, however, Jean-Michel Folon has taken on serious, humanistic themes with no more than delicate whispers of watercolor on paper. His skill and inventiveness have made him one of the world's best-known commercial artists. Now, in a career-spanning survey on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art through June 3, Folon is coming in for the sort of institutional scrutiny rarely afforded an artist whose work is better known from posters...
...despite the skill of the California-based challengers, the Harvard team managed to retain its equanimity throughout the final match, said Lennon's partner, David S. Coale...