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...ordained Presbyterian minister, he didn't smoke, drink or eat meat, prayed every day and went to bed by 9:30 each night. To cynics and parodists, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a namby-pamby zone of pint-size feel-goodism, and Mister Rogers himself a wimpy Stuart Smalley for tots...
...development or already on sale: handheld devices that can sense anthrax spores, hand cream that can protect us from them and computer chips that are faster, cheaper and cooler (we're talking temperature here, not hipness) and retain data even when the power is shut off. Says Richard Smalley, a Rice University professor and Nobel-prizewinning chemist: "We are only beginning to see the things nanotechnology...
Professional athletes won't find Richard Smalley's soccer balls quite as novel as Harris Goldberg's tennis balls. In fact, without an atomic-force microscope, they won't find them at all: the naturally occurring structures are composed of just 60 carbon atoms. Yet Smalley's discovery is expected to help treat AIDS, cancer and Lou Gehrig's disease, and it earned him and two colleagues the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
These molecular structures are called fullerenes, or buckyballs, in honor of the American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. Smalley sits on the board of C-Sixty, a biotech company that builds fullerenes into molecules that researchers hope will attach to and deactivate HIV molecules and blow up cancer cells on cue. "Buckyballs are not quite like nanosubmarines that target deadly diseases"--as seen in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage--"but because of their size and shape, they are well suited for drug discovery," says Stephen Wilson, co-founder of C-Sixty, based in Houston...
...beyond his political impersonations, Franken was best known for his role as Stuart Smalley, a 12-step program junkie who gave motivational advice...