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...reels now sport built-in microcomputers and liquid crystal display screens. Ryobi America of Bensenville, Ill., for example, makes a $95 bait-casting reel with a computer that monitors the spool's rate of spin during casts and adjusts it as necessary to keep the line from getting snarled. Daiwa of Garden Grove, Calif., sells a $100 spinning reel with a screen that tells how far the line is cast and how fast it is reeled in. The $695 Cannon Digi-Troll, sold by Michigan-based S & K Products, not only drops a trolling lure to a measured depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Fish Don't Stand a Chance | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Across the road, the seven-story Daiwa department store began to crumble, swaying crazily. Ripping, cracking and crashing sounds came from it as sections within collapsed. Yellow dust rose over the city, and suddenly a strong, crazy wind blew up, first from one direction, then another. After a moment's silence came the small voices of human beings-shouts and cries which rose into a din throughout the city. At 5:27 a thin grey wisp of smoke crawled up behind the sagging department store. It grew larger. The fire had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Worse than B-29s | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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