ATS's most stunning technological achievement won't make any money in the near future.

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"I think it's an amazing technological achievement to be able to be able to detect small rocks like this, " said Francois Fressin, a co-author of the paper based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.

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It's said that the hardware will be doled out to staff and volunteers helping to get the Games in order, giving them something to do with their leisure hours (we suppose) as they put the finishing touches on the many event venues spotting the city, and presumably, China will be working hard to play up its technological achievement come game time later this year.

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Anyone who doubts that this has been a century of spectacular architectural achievement as well as radical technological change need only visit the Alvar Aalto show that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art here for evidence that shatters the myth that modern architecture failed.

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Swartz achieved a stunning amount in his 26 years, although the achievement he was perhaps best known for in technological circles was his first, and perhaps the one least reported by the mainstream.

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