Word: compaction
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Does any of this have any practical use? Perhaps. Beams of BEC atoms might be used to inscribe exquisitely small circuits onto the ultra-compact electronic chips. The atoms might also be put to work in ultra-precise atomic clocks. So far, the list of applications is not very long. But, says Oxford's Burnett, "it's like the beginnings of laser technology. It's a solution in search of a problem." Given the thousands of ways lasers are used today, that sounds pretty promising...
...slate of officers and a more compact executive board, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) hopes to revitalize city politics and redefine itself now that rent control--for 25 years one of the group's key issues--is gone...
...NORMAN MAILER STILL ROCKS BACK and forth on the balls of his feet when he talks. He still leaves the impression of a compact nuclear device as drawn by Herblock--shaking slightly on its launch pad, Yoda-shaped and oracular, although somewhat mellowed by the years. He is capable now of an occasional shrug that says, "Who knows...
Today, when we want to hear music, we flip on the compact disc player...
...trekked over to his audio compact disc player, but raised his hand, preventing me from explaining to him that CDROM's couldn't be played on your average Sony shelf system. He reached for a compilation CD of all the James Bond movies and queued the CD to repeatedly play the introductory Bond theme. He then dashed around the room--in a frenzy I haven't seen since the OS/2 Presentation Manager days--making sure to hit the power switch on his computer before he got too tired...