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...Burbank, California, headquartered company knows what it is talking about; it welcomed its 2 billionth visitor last week. And it is no stranger to tempestuous beginnings at an international park, at times caused by imposing a very American sensibility on foreign guests. When Disneyland Paris opened in 1992, Disney famously banned wine from park restaurants, much to the dismay of European bons vivants. In Hong Kong, Disney went out of its way to tailor the park to local tastes. Its "imagineers" installed Main Street's first Chinese eatery, along with Fantasy Gardens where Mickey Mouse, local favorite Mulan and other...
...electromagnetic spectrum is easy to generate and detect, moves through the space fairly easily, and can encode large amounts of information, Horowitz said. Betts said astronomers had been ill-equipped to receive such a signal until the installation of the new telescope Tuesday, which can detect a billionth-of-a-second flash of light. “There have been small targeted searches, but with this setup...they’ll be able to cover the whole sky, increasing their sky coverage by a factor of 100,000,” Betts said. According to Horowitz, the 72-inch telescope...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION *Due to an editing error, the Feb. 1 news article, “Bush Promises Boost for Science,” misstated the size of a nanometer. It is a billionth of a meter, not a millionth...
Although even physicists still have difficulty understanding the theory, superstrings may be thought of as one-dimensional bits of energy measuring a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a centimeter in length. Depending on different versions of the theories, these strings may be either open, or closed into a loop, and they interact in two ways: either two strings coalesce into one, or one string splits into two. Depending on how the strings are vibrating and rotating, they can represent any of the known particles of matter, from quarks to electrons. The nature of the interacting particles...
...Desk gag: "McDonald's this week sold its one billionth hamburger. Why, do you realize that if all the meat in those burgers were stacked up, it would stretch to here?" - and he raises his hand a foot from the desk top. (McDonald's threatened to sue, not realizing it was goofy to demand a retraction for a joke...