Word: atomizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...copyright lawsuit filed by the movie and recording industries has scared investors away from the Michael Ovitz-backed content-search engine Scour, which laid off 52 of its 70 employees two weeks ago. The Digital Entertainment Network imploded in May, and even the critically lauded short-films site Atom Films is in need of another round of financing...
Keenly aware of the critical roasting they would get, the fathers of Pop decided to bail out before drowning in red ink. Says Katzenberg: "Everyone in this space is blindfolded and trying to pin the tail on the donkey." The final ignominy came when indie start-ups iFilm and Atom Films negotiated to buy Pop, but no deal materialized. And so Pop was laid to rest, its tombstone a warning to all those in Tinseltown who would jump on the Internet without first understanding it. If Spielberg and Howard own the story rights to Pop's internal wranglings, however, they...
...Kursk could now be a waterlogged 30,000 tons, even more difficult to handle. A chilling but possible alternative is to leave it on the seabed, along with the six other nuclear submarines, four of them Russian, that have sunk in the age of the atom. The double steel hull of the Kursk will provide some containment for the reactors, which are encased in heavy, steel pressure vessels. The submarine would provide a grim and poignant memorial for the 118 sailors who served, and died, onboard...
DIED. SIR MARCUS OLIPHANT, 98, nuclear physicist and a developer of the atom bomb; in Canberra, Australia. A native Australian, Oliphant discovered new forms of hydrogen and helium at Cambridge University's Cavendish Lab and later joined the Manhattan Project. Horrified by the bombs' effects, he called for peaceful uses of nuclear energy and was South Australian governor for five years...
ASSEMBLERS These cell-size robots may be equipped with fingers for manipulating matter, probes for distinguishing one atom or molecule from another and programs to tell the robots what...