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Tweezers For Biomolecules ... An array of magnetic traps designed for manipulating individual biomolecules and measuring the ultrasmall forces that affect their behavior has been demonstrated by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)... It’s intended to serve as magnetic "tweezers" that can stretch, twist and uncoil individual biomolecules such as strands of DNA....

High Heel Shoes: Unravel Their Magnetic Charm ... It’s been several centuries now that women have been sensuously swaying their hips over sexy high heel shoes. Even today, a woman’s love for high heels continues to enrapture both the heart and feet of the women...

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

...the promise of automation seemed to exert a magnetic force, a seduction that promised to fulfill a dream of perfect control and heal egos wounded by their needs for certainty. The dream contains the image of “people serving a smart machine,” but in the shadow of the dream, human beings have lost the experience of critical judgment that would allow them to no longer simply respond but to know better than, to question, to say no.
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
—David Lehman (b. 1948)