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Sol Axelrod, 37, the manager of the Home Depot here, fittingly learned to fix his own car as a teenager, even changing the brakes.

37岁的索尔·阿克塞尔罗德是这里家得宝的经理，他十几岁时就学会了自己修车，甚至还学会了更换刹车。

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But if he told his family that he intended to be an author, he did not convince Papa Sol.

但是，如果他打算跟他家人说他想当个作家，那么他是不会说服自己的爸爸索尔的。

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(SAYING) On the southern coast - known as the Costa del Sol - block after block of apartments lie empty or half finished, many of them designed for foreign buyers who have long since abandoned the idea of investing in Spain.

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Sandia flew him to Battelle labs in Columbus, Ohio, where he proved in front of the then reigning world sol-gel expert that his paper creation worked in real life.

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This year he showed how, by injecting the cells into a matrix made from silica nanotubes wrapped in a sol-gel, he was able to keep a cell alive for six months.

FORBES: The Science of Small

His first task: create an extremely viscous sol-gel glass.

FORBES: The Science of Small