The creator of the Dallas-based Web site said he's just using humor to sell the shirts, and accuses women's rights groups of overreacting. Edgar called that promotion insulting. Doolin said he got the idea for the shirts after watching the TV show Cops , which he said often shows people in sleeveless T-shirts being arrested for domestic violence.
Nanotubes are sheets of carbon atoms rolled into a tube.
The University of Kentucky is one of only a handful of places where carbon nanotubes are manufactured. In different forms, they can conduct electricity, like a metal, or can be semiconducting. A team headed by Philip G. Collins at IBM's Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., developed a method to control the conductivity of multi-walled nanotubes that connect electrodes. The group reports in this week's issue of the journal Science that they were able to selectively destroy some of the layers by running extremely high currents through them in air. Bowing to a threatened recording-industry lawsuit, a Princeton University computer scientist decided against revealing last week how he and other researchers thwarted security measures meant to protect copyrighted digital music.