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He searched sporting-goods stores, catalogs and the Internet for a synthetic shirt that would shed sweat as fast as the Lycra compression shorts he wore under his football pants. High-end specialists who sold gear for mountaineering and skiing offered pricey garments made with an inner layer of fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tight Skivvies | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

Commanders in urban environments can't survey the entire battlefield and instead see only bits and pieces; it's like playing chess while viewing only four squares on the board. This battlefield compression means that low-ranking corporals and sergeants--not colonels and captains--must often make life-and-death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Door To Door | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Kok's company next developed a more efficient way for the solar division of Shell to turn raw silicon wafers into photovoltaic cells. And Kok has returned to work in the optical-media sector, designing in-line machines to mass-produce all types of dvds. His company has invented a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mister Lean | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

Such discrepancies raised pedagogical concern among the EPC that student motivation suffered from grading ambiguities and the compression of the grading scale.

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Tries To Combat Grade Inflation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

[WHY YOU ASKED IT] Cameras store images as compressed files. Higher compression reduces resolution but uses less storage space.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Buy It: A Digital Camera | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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