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Break computing down to its basics and there's a circuit that can be switched on or off, representing the zeroes and ones of digitized data. In today's issue of Science magazine, IBM researchers report that they've managed to shrink those circuits down to the atomic level, a triumph of nanotechnology that could result in a hundredfold increase in disk drive capacity. Just when you were getting used to your 10-gigabyte hard disk, now we're talking one terabyte...
...issue of school vouchers - the most contentious in American public education over the past decade - is poised to come to a head. On Tuesday a Florida circuit court judge ruled that the state's nascent voucher program violates the state constitution. But this isn't the last we've heard of the Florida voucher program, the most ambitious in the nation. The arguments against the program - that it violates the separation of church and state and leaves the neediest kids stranded in underperforming schools - are being hotly debated across the country, and voucher proponents are already lining up national experts...
...name on. Then Skint signed Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, and the rest is history. Nowadays Skint is the home of major big beat artists like the Low Fidelity All Stars, Hardknox and Cut La Roc, while Loaded is still mostly unheard of outside the English club circuit...
...time Alex Garland used it as the setting for his 1997 novel about young travelers in Thailand searching for the garden of Eden, Ko Pha-Ngan was already a legend on the Asian traveling circuit. Garland's The Beach has taken on a talismanic quality here: waterlogged paperbacks pass from bungalow to bungalow. It is the founding myth of this place: you come looking for paradise...
Which returns us to Catholicism. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 set off what religion futurist Richard Cimino calls "an explosion of lay ministry." This, plus a persistent priest shortage, caused some parishes to approximate a female pastorate. Circuit-riding priests would stop by a church to celebrate Communion and hear confession. In between, however, women--church trained and often called pastor--ran the parish. Eventually there were at least 300 such arrangements (some say there were thousands), but after John Paul II's 1994 letter banning further talk of ordaining women, the movement tailed off. The Pope...