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Oct 9, 2008
ieve the storm would intensify. For reasons still unknown, it didn't. 'The low pressure could have supported stronger winds,' said Ian Giammanco, field coordinator for a hurricane re-search team at Texas Tech. A possible explanation for why Ike didn't reach its full potential is that within the storm, the distribution of pressure gradients was broad enough to stabilize the winds, he added. Tex
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Oct 8, 2008
form a three-mast sailboat structure with its body. The membranous crest atop its head would have served as the third sail, used as a rudder for steering, said Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist of Texas Tech University who is working on the bio-inspired craft. Similarly, the Pterodrone will sport morphing wings and a head crest made of carbon fiber and nylon for such multimodal locomotion. 'The
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Oct 8, 2008
ated that Palin complied with Alaska tax law. A McCain spokesman went further, saying Alaska officials believe they are correctly interpreting the federal tax code. But Bryan Camp, a tax professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, told the 'Journal,' quote, 'the Palins should have reported the 43-thousand dollars in family travel allowances as income.' No formal inquiry into Palin's taxes ha
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Oct 8, 2008
pterodactyl flying over Archer, youre not imagining things. University of Florida aerospace engineer Rick Lind is developing a robotic spy plane modeled after the flying prehistoric dinosaur. Texas Tech University paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee first proposed the idea of using the pterodactyls features in a plane. Lind said the militarys push for tiny aircraft makes it necessary to copy
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