Based on these observations, Garcia, along with his colleague Michael Goldfarb, also set out to design a flying robotic insect. A light metal skeleton formed the thorax while piezoelectric actuators -- materials that bend when electrically activated -- were used to induce vibrations. Using this approach, Garcia and Goldfarb were able to produce the flapping wing motion and 60 percent of the air pressure required to generate lift.

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A special prosecutor who might have been involved in Kazemi's interrogation investigated the killing. His report resulted in the charges, which the Information Ministry says are based on lies.

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For the computer enthusiast spend time in “The Cube” a free standing sculptural office in the front yard. It has a CCD camera connecting you to the outside. If crafts or hobbies are in the works take advantage of the over 300 square foot underground, almost sound proof, workshop under the front walkway.

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The researchers plan to post still images taken by the bears by satellite to a Web site. They hope to someday add video images.

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According to a story in the Washington Post, Major League Baseball has presented the players' union with a draft of the 2004 schedule that lists all of the team's 81 home games as being in Montreal.

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Its publication comes the day before the appearance of Kelly's wife, Janice, before the inquiry. She is likely to testify by video link to avoid the media scrum created by other witnesses' arrival at the Royal Courts of Justice. Her evidence to the inquiry, set up to find out the cause of her husband's death, has the potential to undermine fatally the evidence of both the BBC and the Government.

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The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

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One gay man in his 50s who studied to become a Jesuit believes some gays are attracted by the rituals of Mass: the incense, embroidered vestments and beautiful music. "It is like the opera. Why wouldn't gays like it?" he says. (Those who focus overly on the theatrics of Mass are known as "liturgy queens").

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Jackson and about 30 others then blocked traffic. To the cheers of protesters, Jackson was the first to be handcuffed at about 11:30 a.m. and led onto a bus to be processed at police headquarters.

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Anonymous mass markets are giving way to markets in identified customers because many of the information technologies of the last several decades such as databases, call centers and the Internet have had the effect of facilitating interaction between firms and individually identified customers. Such interactivity makes market-matching much more accountable and hence more efficient than it was under a broadcast marketing regime.

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Yet when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do." The man at the other end would be Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahd's and a publisher better known as a racehorse  owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002. To the amazement of the U.S., the numbers proved valid. When the fake inquisitors accused Zubaydah of lying, he responded with a 10-minute monologue laying out the Saudi-Pakistani-bin Laden triangle.

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Kristi Brown, a musicologist at the Colburn School of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, says the music of J.S. Bach often works differently. These days, when you hear Bach in a film, he tends to accompany serial killers, Nazis and mad scientists. One of an emerging group of scholars who study classical music's resonance in pop culture, Brown is looking at how movies borrow Bach's music for scenes of stabbings, flayings and falling bombs.

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