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		<title><![CDATA[Think 'Small' to Get Done Faster]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever find yourself struggling to complete a task because it seems so daunting? We've all been there. Envisioning all the steps that need to be taken to get to "done" can be overwhelming. But if you reduce the friction that's holding you back, says Leo Babauta on Zen Habits, it's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Michigan State University Study Ranks GameDay Grass 3D From AstroTurf Closest to Natural Grass in Study of Multiple Turf Systems]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200808/ai_n27976013]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the results of a Michigan State University study, which was selected for presentation today at the North American Congress on Biomechanics Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, AstroTurf's GameDay Grass 3D most closely replicated natural grass in a comparison of 16 types of synthetic and natural sports turf, based...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A strategy based on faith: the enduring appeal of progressive American airpower]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KNN/is_49/ai_n28009277]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED]  Following the F-16 bombing raid in June 2006 that killed terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, President George W. Bush told reporters: "Zarqawi is dead, but the difficult and necessary mission in Iraq continues. We can expect the terrorists and insurgents to carry on without him. We can expect...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sun Capital Acquires Raytech Aftermarket, Wet Friction Business]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5935/is_200803/ai_n25306398]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners said it has acquired the wet friction and aftermarket businesses of Raytech Corp. and will operate the businesses as Friction Holdings and PowerTrain Holdings. Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners said it has acquired the wet friction and aftermarket businesses of Raytech Corp. and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Acquires Drivetrain Intermediary, LLC, the Wet Friction and Aftermarket Business Units of Raytech Corporation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Sun Capital Partners, Inc. ("Sun Capital"), a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, today announced that one of its affiliates has acquired the wet friction and aftermarket businesses of Raytech Corporation ("Raytech"), which produce specialty-engineered friction and energy absorption...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TrackJet achieves runway friction levels.(Products & Service: Announcements)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]    Germany company Weigel has announced that its TrackJet product  allows new runways to achieve friction levels normally only experienced  with 'bedded in' surfaces.    Today's runways are constructed using a bituminous binder  which leaves an oily film on the surface....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[20 Minutes With... Dr. Dong Zhu]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5322/is_200711/ai_n21298402]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Working with scientists from around the world, this dedicated researcher is advancing our understanding of gear failures and the surface contact and lubrication analysis methods that may lead to the increase of gear efficiency and durability. Editor's Note: Dr. Zhu's name was submitted for a 20 Minutes profile by STLE's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Near-Dry Machining Cuts the Heat]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Systems for supplying minimum quantities of cutting fluid are slipping into shops that use traditional flood-cooling-though slowly   "Metal working fluids are not costly in themselves, but they can run up the costs of production if poorly chosen or improperly handled and controlled." This is a reasonable observation for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ETimor govt will not last beyond two years: ex-PM]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200709/ai_n19508122]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA AFP &#8212; East Timor's new government will not last beyond two years because of mounting friction among its coalition parties, ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri said in an interview published here Wednesday.  A new government headed by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao took office in August amid protest from Alkatiri's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scientists reveal secret of levitation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200708/ai_n19403054]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says.  Physicists said they can create "incredible levitation effects" by manipulating so-called Casimir force, which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Better than free!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5322/is_200708/ai_n21293719]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A professional friend of mine recently shared a news clip which reported that The Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT has decided to put the content of the university's entire curriculum of 1,800 courses online for free! These are not online courses, and no course credit is given. The posted material...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hajj pilgrims offered relief from chafed thighs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200707/ai_n19363463]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[RIYADH AFP &#8212; Help is being offered to Muslims afflicted by chafed thighs during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Gazette reported on Saturday.  Worshippers at the annual event are to be offered "seamless trousers" for the first time to guard against chafing, the English language daily...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MATERIAL JOINT THICKNESSES FOR Fasteners in Shear]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5357/is_200707/ai_n21292659]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Q How do I size the sheet thickness for fasteners that are carrying mostly shear loads? A This depends on both fastener and sheet strength. The balancing act is to make sure that the fasteners are stronger than the sheet. I'll give you some illustrations and guidelines. Background! When the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[White House sees 'real opportunities' to work with Sarkozy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200705/ai_n19056070]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US President George W. Bush sees "real opportunities" to work with French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy, despite some likely frictions, the White House said Monday.  "The president always hopes for close relations with France," and expects to meet with Sarkozy at a summit of industrialized nations in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firm Investment And Financial Frictions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314158]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper investigates the analytical and empirical linkages between firms' capital investment behavior and financial market frictions. The empirical approach constructs measures of own- and market-specific uncertainty from firms' daily stock returns and S&P 500 index returns along with a CAPM-based risk measure. The results indicate that even in the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Rubber Technologies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6620/is_1_236/ai_n29343117]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[National Rubber Technologies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, announced the official launch of this newly formed company. National Rubber Technologies will focus heavily on its line of Symar products, including friction mats, acoustic control underlay, rubber sheets and rolls, and anti-slip and anti-fatigue matting. National Rubber Technologies has key contracts with Ford...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US offers hand of cooperation after firebrand Chavez reelected]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200612/ai_n16940216]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; The United States extended an offer of cooperation to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after the vituperatively anti-American leftist won reelection. "President Chavez has been re-elected for another term in office, and we would hope that we could have a positive, constructive relationship with the government of Venezuela,"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Contractual Frictions And Global Sourcing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276599]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper explains the model of international organization of production in order to accommodate varying degrees of contractual frictions. In particular, we allow the degree of contractibility to vary across inputs and countries. A continuum of firms with heterogeneous productivities decides whether to integrate or outsource the production of intermediate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dribble quibble: experiments find that new basketball gets slick]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_19_170/ai_n26709247]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A dispute in professional basketball about a new ball has bounced its way into a physics lab. A study launched last month at the University of Texas at Arlington compares a controversial plastic ball introduced in preseason games this summer by the National Basketball Association NBA with the previous standard--a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New evidence to explain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2735_135/ai_n27059556]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[New evidence to explain how the body's natural joint lubricant prevents the wear and tear that can lead to osteoarthritis has been uncovered by engineers at Duke University, Durham, N.C. The findings may lead to new methods for treating arthritis. The researchers found that, rather than simply reducing friction, lubricin...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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