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...union of heart and prayer be a beam of light in a darkened world,” he said...
...molecules by trailing a fine needle over their surfaces--much as a phonograph reads the grooves of a record. Coat the needle with an appropriate chemical, however, and you convert it into a grapple for manipulating molecules. Laser tweezers, meanwhile, trap molecules and particles in a tightly focused beam of light. Move the beam and you move the object...
...Here's the idea: the new company, China Broadcast Satellite Transmission Co., will receive all foreign and domestic satellite feeds at a special government facility in Beijing. It will encrypt the signals, uplink them to a satellite and beam them down to the public. The objective is a double dose of control: the state will be the monopoly provider of satellite television broadcasting on the mainland, and foreign networks will have to pay to get their signals into China. In addition, authorities will be able to censor foreign satellite broadcasts with a simple push of a button...
...consent. And they have had terrible luck trying to switch on their home air-conditioning over the Net before leaving the office. The feature was blocked by their companies' firewalls. Otherwise, it would have been a nice touch, as would the digital video cameras that could allow Raymond to beam up his wife's image over the Internet while on one of his frequent business trips. Raymond has never tried to tackle that complicated system, either...
...chip in a tiny chipset somewhere in the inner workings of my cell-phone handset will alert some 27 satellites, known as the global positioning system (originally launched by and for the U.S. military to keep track of missiles and stuff), of my whereabouts. Enough of those satellites will beam back my location to my carrier that it will have a pretty good idea (within a dozen or so meters) where I am and it will, depending upon my preferences, be empowered to pass that information on to my employers, my buds, my loved ones...