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IBM, in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, has developed a hydrogel that can be smeared all over such implants, greatly reducing the risk of infection.
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During the campaign over the coming months I have little doubt that Romney, Ryan and Rand will be unfairly smeared and trashed by an increasingly desperate and vicious left-wing, as well as by Catholic leaders annoyed that more publicity is going to Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged than to Jesus Christ and the Bible.
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The carbon amalgam can be applied from solution using simple methods, meaning the flexible cells could be used to coat surfaces, although you won't be seeing it smeared over anything too soon.
ENGADGET: Stanford researchers create 'world's first' all-carbon solar cell, do it on the cheap
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"I am angry as a citizen of the United Kingdom that this seems to be happening in parliament and I am angry as a politician that the good name of the endeavor of politics trying to find shared solutions to shared problems is once again being smeared by what appears to be conduct that literally cannot be defended, " he told the BBC.
NPR: UK Politicians Caught In Lobbying Scandal
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He refused to be turned on even when a female Swiss zoology graduate, smeared with tortoise hormones, gave him manual stimulation for four months.
ECONOMIST: Nora Ephron and Lonesome George
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Elephants can be deterred by electric fences, where they can be afforded, or, it is hoped, by a rope smeared with a pungent mixture of grease and hot chilli peppers.
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