Its "nose" is a 2-inch-long glass cylinder coated on the inside with a concoction of glowing chemicals like those found in the belly of a lightning bug.

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But knowing that trust has become precious and the ability to deliver it, as Mark Twain once said, is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

FORBES: The of Power Of Trust

The difference is, as Mark Twain once put it, like that between lightning and a lightning bug: Team Obama has unmistakably capitulated at the geo-strategic level and no amount of obfuscations about revised intelligence or "stronger, smarter and swifter" missile defense architectures will conceal that fact.

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