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High Energy Repetitive CUos Laser System. An ultra compact laser built at the University of Michigan which is said to generate an ultra-fast laser pulse 50 times more powerful than all the world's power plants combined. HERCULES delivers very short pulses—30 femtoseconds, the time it takes for light to travel the distance of a blood cell—focused on an area 1/100th of the width of a hair, which has the potential for changing cancer ablation
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"Throughout their motion appellants engage in herculean efforts to make what is essentially a sufficiency of the evidence appeal - and a weak one at that - appear to be something else."
According to Degennaro, the sale loomed as a Herculean task since the purchaser's main focal point was designed to complete a tax-free exchange.
Writing a comprehensive dictionary on the subject would seem a Herculean feat for anyone bold enough to try.
Brookfield Power Corporation will be making a herculean effort to get both phases of their energy development up and operating by year's end.
Although there are Herculean efforts underway at Ford, General Motors, and a host of supplier companies to solve the financial crises that they are currently confronting, at the risk of adding to their burdens, I would like to suggest that they are in the midst of a crisis that is evident, visible, and probably not noticed by them.
Other details suggest the scale of the work yet to be done: The peeling paint and lack of a headlight indicate a Herculean task ahead.
After centuries of peaceful coexistence with other groups, the Ibandi face possible annihilation at the hands of the Herculean, genocidal Mk*tk.
All of us can tell similar stories about casually Herculean work efforts by relatives who moved from Europe or Latin America or Asia or Africa--or various parts of the U.S.--and helped build this country.
So are the nation's governors, recently embarked on a Herculean effort to develop a multistate definition of high-school completion.
In her almost herculean ambition to bridge the chasm that separated the absence of sculpture in Germany from the affluence of sculpture in American Minimalism, Genzken emerged as one of the most serious artists after the famed generation of Palermo, Polke, and Richter.
Matthew Hoggard hailed fellow destroyer Andrew Flintoff's Herculean effort as England bowled themselves to the verge of Ashes glory with the help of the London weather.
The book will undoubtedly serve as a major resource for social policy scholars, and the editor is to be commended for taking on what must have been a herculean task.
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