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...know, the universe can expand forever and Harvard can have a 350 billionth birthday," Kirshner said...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: Wish Upon a Star | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

...beam is focused to about the width of three human hairs, yet is a thousand trillion times brighter than the sunlight that falls on the earth. Together they deliver 100 trillion watts of power, about 200 times the present electricity-generating capacity of the U.S., albeit only for a billionth of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Hopes for a Super Nova | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...residue--that one one-billionth--that's our universe," Wald said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologist Advances Theory on 'Accidental' Creation | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

...been selling hamburgers so fast (140 per sec.) that many golden-arched signs state simply: BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SOLD. But that does not mean that McDonald's has lost count. Indeed, the Illinois-based company (1983 sales: $3.1 billion) disclosed last week that it will sell its 50 billionth hamburger some time late this month or in early November. The tally goes back to 1948, when hamburger No. 1 went on the grill at the McDonald brothers' drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif. McDonald's acknowledges that it will be unable to single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Flipping the 50 Billionth Burger | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Jones is moving within range of creating a computer that imitates the eye-to-brain functions which could process vast amounts of information at speeds of about one billionth of a second--faster than the speed the with which state-of-the-art computers operate today...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Professor Chases Hyperspeed Computer | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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