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...trial also proved to be a tricky test for the people who decide what mix of news CNN will beam to its global audience. As the network's impact has grown, those decisions have become more crucial. To the extent that the images CNN chooses to show -- Boris Yeltsin defying coup plotters or a reporter sifting through bomb damage in Baghdad -- are important in shaping people's attitudes and governments' policies, a handful of news executives in Atlanta are among the world's most influential journalists...
OPTICAL TWEEZERS. With a single beam of infrared laser light, scientists can seize and manipulate everything from DNA molecules to bacteria and yeast without harming them. Among other things, optical tweezers can keep a tiny organism swimming in place while scientists study its paddling flagella under a microscope. Optical tweezers can also reach right through cell membranes to grab specialized structures known as organelles and twirl them around. Currently, researchers are using the technology to measure the mechanical force exerted by a single molecule of myosin, one of the muscle proteins responsible for motion. Scientists are also examining the swimming...
...miracle is a wonder, a beam of supernatural power injected into history. Up There descends Down Here for an instant. The world connects to a mystery -- a happening that cannot be explained in the terms of ordinary life...
...against smog may soon get a new high-tech weapon. A device being tested in Provo, Utah, uses an infrared beam, computer software and a video camera to add up the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons billowing from the tail pipes of passing cars -- and to automatically record their license numbers...
...need an addressable cable box or a fancy monitor to beam in on the most exciting TV in the country. Even a screen is superfluous. All that's necessary is a tape deck or a CD player and a finely tuned ear. Let Public Enemy supply the images...