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Despite its low cost, NEAR is bristling with sensors. It carries not only a camera but also a laser-based radar system to map Eros' surface in detail, three different spectrometers to analyze the asteroid's chemical composition, and a magnetometer to gauge its magnetic field. The ship itself is an instrument of sorts. On its first approach, NEAR will deliberately overshoot Eros to see how much the asteroid's gravity slows it down and thus how massive Eros really...
...tonic effect of Jon Blair's documentary Anne Frank Remembered is to restore the human scale to an immense atrocity. It chronicles the daily life of a family--the Frank family, hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis--with a detail that never sensationalizes. It also gives a fresh perspective to the martyred teenager the world knows as Anne Frank...
First elected to office during the Truman administration, Bob Dole has just lost the New Hampshire primary for the third time. Imagine the glazed eyes of primary voters who trudge out to a Bob Dole "rally" and hear the candidate explain in excruciating detail the process of getting the START II Treaty out of subcommittee. Dole has never understood that the presidency is not the prime ministry...
...years, Galloway says, the mostly white suburbs around Buffalo have been hostile to minorities. Security guards and police keep blacks under surveillance, he claims, and even have a special lingo for this detail. "Radio calls would say, 'We are stopping a unit," Galloway says, "which is an acronym for 'Unwanted Nigger In Town.'" (Police deny using this term...
...heightened and almost anal-retentive detail of earlier etchings soon expands to include looser, more casually rendered portraits (such as the mid-eighteenth century "Preste de la Loy") and quick political caricatures (such as those of eighteenth-century Britain). The medium is particularly effective on the larger scale for which this specific printmaking process allows. In Giovanni Piranesi's eighteenth-century "Arch of Ianus Quadrifons," the sheer size and weight of the severe values combine with intense detail, resulting in a piece of surprising presence...