Mr. RICHARD BINZEL (Astronomer): The word planet is strictly defined to be a body rounded by self-gravity, which has cleared its orbital zone.
Shares of Apple, along with shares from many other profitable and stable companies, seem to have been trapped by that stock-market gravity.
These politicians tend to rely heavily on the support of unionized public-sector workers and almost always repay the favor by lavishing those same workers with a gravity-defying upward spiral of ever-increasing pay and benefits.
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So far, the birds have been bound by the all-powerful principle of gravity, but in space, that concept is going to get a little bent.
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The lightweight plastic and carbon fiber robot, which is the newest member of a supposed zoo of animal-inspired devices from CMU's NanoRobotics Lab, owes its gravity-defying skills to research done by Harvard University biologists on the basilisk, or Jesus, lizard.
Stock-market gravity is known by many names: negative investor sentiment, lack of confidence in the system, panic, depression and a whole host of other fun terms.
The main source of meteorites, Chinese folklore notwithstanding, is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, a rough-and-tumble region of our solar system in which would-be planets are upset by Jovian gravity.
Patented in 1801 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the tourbillon was designed to counteract the effects of gravity by isolating parts inside a revolving cage.
Presto -- the heavy socks defy gravity by clinging to her legs midway between ankle and knee.
The model Southern is building, the AP1000, is totally new, with safety systems powered by gravity instead of electricity, a so-called passive design.
At Purdue University in Indiana, scientists are working on a reactor-like device that uses water circulated by gravity to keep the core cool.
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Purdue scientists say their gravity-driven cooling system would keep working by itself, even if operators walked away during an accident.
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Most crops in the region are sown and harvested by hand, including the small plots that dot the gravity-challenging mountain sides, and farm machinery is a rare sight, with villagers using donkeys, oxen and bulls to plough the crops.
In other green tech and design news, Hitachi unveiled an impressive new wireless controlled robot to help with the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup and London-based designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves developed the GravityLight, an amazing low-energy, battery-free light that works by harnessing the power of weight and gravity.
The hope is that by making very exacting measurements, it will be possible to see gravity--and "dark energy"--at work.
Buildings of the finest neoclassical style hover in mid-air, floating individually yet held together by skylines and an unseen gravity.
The gradients seem less marked over the oceans where a lot of gravity field information has already been determined by spacecraft that measure sea-surface topography.
Rather than carom from character to character, as the series once did, the new episodes focus primarily on a single character, beginning with the ostensibly normal son, and the series' center of gravity, Michael Bluth (played with po-faced conviction by Jason Bateman).
Talking to dealers of old watches, he heard about the tourbillon--a rotating mechanism created by Breguet in 1795 to compensate for the effects of gravity on hanging pocket watches.
Gravity was not a physical force but was caused by a curvature in space-time.
The gravity of the situation is exemplified by the crunch on liquidity in the short-dated cash market.
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In 2005, Theriault's auctioned one of the most spectacular, a piece by Gustave Vichy in which a three-foot-tall acrobat grasping two chairs appears to defy gravity.
But Cheney's predictably over-the-top comments reminded those same Americans that he has no peer in politicizing issues of gravity--and they made Obama look that much more grown-up by comparison.
De Gaulle's vision of Franco-German reconciliation, of the building of a new European order with France and Germany as its centre of gravity, ended - according to one British historian - a historic enmity created by the division of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century.
The flights will be conducted by a DC-8 outfitted as a special airborne laboratory with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments.
This would make sense if short-period comets started off in the Kuiper belt and were nudged into closer orbits around the sun by the gravity of the most distant of the giant planets, Neptune.
Antigovernment rebels have also committed "murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, " the report by the commission said, adding: "These violations and abuses were not of the same gravity, frequency and scale as those committed by government forces and the Shabbiha, " or pro-government militants.
Equally importantly, the Higgs allows two of the four forces in nature -- the electromagnetic force and the weak force, which is responsible for most nuclear reactions -- to be unified and described by mathematics of the same type that describe the other two known forces, the so-called strong force and gravity.
Gravity bombs are designed to be delivered by the U.S. bomber force composed of the B-52 "Stratofortress" and the B-2 "Spirit".
Oregon vintner Richard Ponzi uses a gravity system to process his pinot noir, because the finicky fruit would be too roughed-up by pumps.
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