`Glee' wheelchair episode hits bump with disabled

The glee club members twirl their wheelchairs to the tune of "Proud Mary" and in joyful solidarity with Artie, the fellow performer who must use his chair even when the music stops.

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Fathers looking to step up feel invisible

Father's Day has come and gone, and with it the annual flurry of dad-friendly gifts, heartwarming newscasts and the highest-ranking father in the land — President Barack Obama — taking time to urge his fellow fathers to step up when it comes to their kids.

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Thousands lead invisible life in Italy

They speak Italian, eat Italian and cheer for Italy's soccer stars, but they are not Italian. In fact, it's hard to say what they are.

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Pentagon Nixes Ray Gun Weapon in Iraq

Saddam Hussein had been gone just a few weeks, and U.S. forces in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, were already being called unwelcome invaders. One of the first big anti-American protests of the war escalated into shootouts that left 18 Iraqis dead and 78 wounded.

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I have been hearing about this for some time, invisibility cloak. This has been reportedly right on the horizon, waiting for that one push to bring it to the forefront, well it's here! The ability to cloak any object to be completely invisible.

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If you could be invisible for just one day, what would you do?

We all wish we could do certain things to ease the quality of our life, to avenge a certain painful situation, or to make things better for someone else.

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Awesome.

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Invisible (A poem)

Invisible (A poem) I live, I breathe, I walk, I talk I eat and drink I bathe I sleep I laugh I sigh and I cry on the inside and out Invisible to the world feeling empty inside my heart is crying out but no one is hearing it

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Look out, Harry Potter: researchers have advanced the study of cloaking—rendering objects invisible by forcing light waves to act as if the objects weren't there.

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"We've now shown that both 2-D and 3-D acoustic cloaks theoretically do exist," Cummer said.

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The authors of [an earlier] paper concluded that you could either have perfect invisibility at one color, or imperfect invisibility at three colors.

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A Girl Named Sherry

I must warn you this is a sad story !

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Comparing the values of cloaking and resonance frequencies, it is seen that the values are interleaved with each other: it may be shown that in general, when passive materials are employed, there is always a resonant peak between two neighboring cloaking frequencies, and vice ver …

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Interesting set of photos....

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...a simulated layer system with the Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) Modelling method, which is able to hide, in certain frequencies, the objects placed in an electromagnetic simulator. Such studies are the germ to achieve invisibility to radars or even to the human eye...

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This article's beginning is striking, bold, and immediately draws the reader into the following paragraphs. The nut graf is in the third paragraph: UC Berkeley researchers are finding ways to bend light around objects, hoping one day to be able to simulate 'invisibility'.

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Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible. Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".

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"An international team has engineered a material that can control visible light's direction of travel - bending it around objects to render anything from people to large objects like ships and tanks invisible.

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Seriously...Harry Potter stuff becoming a reality. Invisibility cloaks would sell more than iPhones!

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It may be a fluke, but if not, this guy has just discovered a new kind of matter altering device that he calls angel light.

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Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards.

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...Groups of convicted sex offenders wandering Central Florida streets are considered missing and "invisible" because they are homeless and no longer have addresses where authorities can find them...

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Imagine you are invisible. Congratulations, you are now actually less likely to remember what you were doing a few minutes ago, and possibly a lot longer ago than that.

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A supernatural thriller about a teenager who finds himself trapped between the worlds of the living and the deceased.

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We've got next-to-invisible objects and cameras with ridiculously large sensors, and thanks to a team of brilliant researchers over in Germany, now we've got "an exotic material with a negative refractive index for visible light." Gunnar Dolling and his colleagues at the Universi …

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"Invisibility has long been the stuff of fantasy, from Plato's story of the ring of Gyges to Harry Potter's mischief-enabling cloak.

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The use of scantily clad models in ads for everything from underwear to ice cream attests to the persuasive power of sex, but a surprising new study finds that our actions can be swayed by erotic images even when they don't consciously register in our awareness.

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Using a hidden MP3 player and a hidden FM modulator, you can give your out-of-date stereo the update it so badly deserves.

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Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. It isn''t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Capt. James T.

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