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...even after Perot's mercurial conduct, he is poised to garner the votes of perhaps 21 million Americans today, if last week's polls prove correct. Still, that may be one of the smallest ironies in a movement full of them...
...basking in the glow of the Gulf War victory and enjoying the highest approval ratings ever recorded. That he might even stand a chance of losing the presidency seemed improbable; that he might lose to the young (just 44 at the time), virtually unknown Governor of one of the smallest and poorest states in the nation -- well, nobody would have believed it. Yet as the campaign moved into its final week, despite some tightening of the polls, that was precisely what seemed likely to happen...
...genius flows, in part, from Walsh's capacity to master the intricacies and smallest details of the game. If an opponent devised a defense that nullified the five options designed into the 49er offense, Walsh would quickly create a sixth. Then a seventh. No detail was too insignificant, and no game ever strayed far from his mind. "If we won by 35, I would wake up in the middle of the night and see how we could have won by 42," he says. "In the early days, if we lost by 21, I would wake...
...presidents are vulnerable to the whims to the electorate, vice-presidents sometimes the smallest of pawns...
...world's smallest battery; it is one one-hundredth the size of a red blood cell and puts out twenty one-thousandths of a volt. Its terminals are pillars of copper and silver atoms piled 100,000 high by scientists using a scanning tunneling electron microscope...