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...with the walls would instantly cool the gas and kill the reaction -- but a bottle made of magnetic fields. The researchers would make up for the comparatively low pressure inside by raising the temperature to unheard-of levels. (A competing idea that shows promise uses converging laser beams to compress and ignite a stream of tiny, gas-filled glass pellets...
...Think of it as free public education. Everyonegets it, but we don't base it on who you workfor," he says. "The plan would have been simpler,and we wouldn't have had to compress evolutionarychanges into a revolutionary time period...
...modems with speed rated 9600 baud, which, despite of a price tag of more than $100, are winning over many a computer user. Most of these modems are actually able to work faster than the rated spped of 9600 baud; equipped with the so- called V.42bis data- compression standard, they can compress and decompress data at a ratio of 4:1, which means up to 38,400 bits of data, or orughly three double- spaced pages of text, can be sent or received per second...
...into the size-10 shoes left by the Bush Administration and shared the one ball for three games until the blisters began to form. Upstairs, amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...civic style, if one can so compress it, was more than just a Spanish mutation of Art Nouveau, which the Catalans called modernisme. It was obsessed with the meaning of local nationality and the eternal pressure of the past. It was full of myth, decoration, narrative, metaphor: a speaking architecture, overrich for some purist tastes but of interest to anyone today who wants to see how social and historical meanings are embodied in new building...