But many Turks still balk at the prospect of surgery to thicken one's whiskers.

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In the second experiment, a scan of the decoder's brain showed that it began to represent the encoder's whiskers as well as its own whiskers in the tactile cortex.

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That's why I was intrigued when Paws, Whiskers and Wags, the Georgia pet crematory that handled Daisy's remains, introduced monthly group grief counseling sessions.

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He and his team of 24 graduate students are the world's leaders in building "nanowires, " whiskers of semiconductors so thin you could bundle 20 million inside a strand of 2-lb.

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"We're the ones who educate the public and make these brands what they are, " says Randy Klein, the owner of Whiskers Holistic Petcare in Manhattan and an early Brown supporter, sounding miffed about Halo's migration to Petco.

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The microscopic whiskers can stop bacteria in a face mask or filter out water droplets in a hospital's air conditioner.

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