Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joshua Cooper Ramo, who oversaw our coverage of the tussle with Saddam, has been editing TIME's World section for six weeks, and so far he loves it. "The hours are lethal, but it's a blast to go to bed talking to Tokyo and wake up to a call from Belgrade," he says. Ramo, who also edits TIME Digital, our bimonthly supplement about technology, says the joy of covering international news comes from marrying the best reporting with sharp thinking and memorable writing. "Our value is in helping people understand how and why the world is changing...
...blast," he says, joking about the "L2K" trophy he received back in Austin...
...that velocity, says Guenter Riegler, a NASA senior scientist, a meteoroid as small as a dust particle could blast a hole nearly half an inch across in a solar panel or a layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...
...half of all homes that have PCs will have lots of PCs. Networking them saves money, since even the dumbest machine will be able to share files with the smartest. Or connect to a single printer. Or tap into the Pentium II in the home office and blast out over the Net on its 56K modem. In February 1999, Intel plans to start shipping a chip that will be built into both computers and peripherals, allowing them to network through the phone jacks in your house...
...Foster got free on a fast break aftera defender's attempted clear veered off her chest,but her blast from the top of the box wasdeflected by a leaping Reginio. Just secondslater co-captain Devon Bingham sent a ball fromthe right endline screaming towards the front ofthe net. Miller raced in from the left side toredirect, but she tripped over Reginio and managedonly to tap it wide...