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When the light chip reaches the marketplace, sometime within the next 10 years, it will be more compact and up to 20 times as fast as its silicon equivalent. Result: electronic equipment that is quicker, smaller and cheaper, in everything from cars to kitchens to wristwatches. The race for a light chip has been under way for years, and though Texas Instruments is the first to produce one, it still hasn't crossed the real finish line: practical consumer application...
None of which suggests that a new compact with Baghdad promises any great salvation for the Kurds. At most, it offers a return to normality. For the Kurds, that has long meant waiting, and preparing, for the battle to come...
...tissue to tighten into a fibrous mass, sometimes leaving the breast misshapen and hard to the touch. But the polyurethane foam coating of the Surgitek products prevented this from happening by substantially increasing the surface area of the implant. When the neighboring tissue contracts, it does not become too compact. Surgeons who have used the models -- which came into widespread use only in the past decade -- swear by it, as do many women. Said one recipient: "They feel just like a non-implant pair of breasts...
...technology is called CD-ROM, for compact-disc read-only memory, and the disc can be "played," with the help of an attachment costing $400 to $900, on most personal computers. The TIME newsdisc, titled Desert Storm -- The War in the Persian Gulf, will include TIME stories and charts, scores of unpublished photographs, sound recorded from radio and TV, and files from our correspondents in the field. Users can call up different pieces of information at the click of a mouse. Says executive editor Dick Duncan: "It gives the reader-viewer a first raw cut of history...
...Flakes, each ounce of which was individually packaged in small cardboard boxes with wax paper liners. Later I ripped through the plastic wrapper of my Bic pens with a vengeance. In the garbage can, it nestled just underneath the cardboard monstrosity that once held a newly purchased Neil Young compact disc. Several Columbo raspberry yogurt containers rested at the bottom of the can. Have fun, guys, I told them. The garbage man will take you away tomorrow...