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Doctors at Shifa had tried for an hour to save Wael, but it was hopeless. X rays of the boy's skull taken from the front show a perfectly circular entrance above the bridge of the nose. From the side, an X ray exposes an identical round shape resting against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fields Of Fire | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

This isn't science fiction. The National Cancer Institute and NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Up Next: Nanosurgery | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

For nearly a half-century, starting in 1949, the world's most powerful research-quality telescope was the Hale, on Palomar Mountain, in California. Its mirror, 5 m (17 ft.) in diameter, focused more faint starlight than anything else on the planet. But in the past few years, the Hale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hubble | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Know your ABC's (and D's): any moles on your skin that are Asymmetric, have an irregular Border, change in Color or have a Diameter greater than 1/4 in. (6 mm) should be checked immediately by a physician. (Melanomas often grow within a matter of a few months.) Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Sun? | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

The place was quiet inside, but the drive-through was bustling, and service was a tad slow. I busied myself preparing my Coke and was impressed by the expansive diameter of the straws - excellent for quenching a powerful thirst like the one had I built up in a hectic, bleary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurant Review: The In-N-Out Burger | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

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