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The Pentagon's Pet Projects

From flying fish to mindfulness

by Michael Betzold

posted 11/28/2008

An expanse of sky and treetops on North Campus spreads out in the windows behind Wei Shyy as he describes his work designing tiny planes that fly and perch like insects and birds. Talking about an insect’s arms, the chair of the U-M’s aerospace engineering department becomes so animated he runs his left hand down his own right arm from shoulder to wrist, almost

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