Word: beams
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While the fleet consists of nine Holyoke Center elevators that beam passengers up at a roaring velocity of 400 feet per minute, the dinosaurs on campus include a small Claverly Hall machine that creaks and bumps along at 100 feet per minute...
...high-speed computer-graphics chips that can create millions of bright colors and flash them on a screen in a fraction of a second; digital compression schemes that can squeeze the equivalent of a complete set of an encyclopedia onto a single silver disc; fiber-optic cable that can beam limitless quantities of data around the world at nearly the speed of light; simulation techniques that can immerse players in a three- dimensional world of illusion...
Such deals, though substantial, barely hint at the ultimate scope of Murdoch's latest thrust: to cover the earth with his own digital superhighway. To increase his market penetration, the media baron is developing a digital compression system to enable TV satellites to beam down 180 channels, thereby allowing most of the world to watch everything from news and sports to such Fox shows as The Simpsons and Beverly Hills 90210. As the capstone of these Napoleonic visions, Murdoch and British Telecommunications, which operates Britain's largest phone system, are developing interactive links that will let viewers call up movies...
...including Wilson, had ever tried in pop before. The lyrics were as fleeting as a waking dream; the musical tracks were layered as if Wilson were a kid in his room stacking 45-r.p.m. records on top of one another. The songs that resulted seem random at first, off-beam and crazy, but they haunt...
Kids, don't try this at home: Penn State University scientists have created thin layers of diamond by the unlikely technique of cooking carbon-rich plastic, mixed with potassium and sodium and blasted with a beam of ultrasound, at low temperature in a regular home oven. The result is a low- grade but authentic form of diamond. If the quality can be improved, plastic-derived diamond could provide a cheap, strong coating for everything from airplane windows to drilling tools...