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...food, was found at the site, along with two mushrooms strung on a knotted leather cord. The mushrooms have infection-fighting properties and may have been part of the world's oldest-known first-aid kit. The only decorative item, possibly a talisman, was a small, doughnut-shaped stone disk, with a tassel of string...
...mail room of a New York office building that also happened to house a radio station. Five years later, in 1957, hearing that Miami was a more promising venue, he caught a bus heading south, started pounding on doors and finally was hired as a disk jockey on WAHR. He changed his name to King and soon had his own sports show...
...reasons to think the latter is true. For one thing, the existence of the belt and cloud are natural consequences of established theories about the birth of the solar system. According to such theories, the early sun, formed from a cloud of gas and dust, was surrounded by a disk-shaped nimbus made up of the leftovers. The newborn star's heat drove smaller particles and gases, including water vapor, out from the center. The heavier, metal-rich rock left behind condensed into asteroids and the inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Much of the gas and light dust...
...main advantage will be that hundreds of digital images can be stored on an optical disk and sorted in a flash. They can be recopied endlessly, each new image a perfect replica of the old. They can be transmitted anywhere in the world at nearly the speed of light. And they can be called to a computer screen and cropped, tinted, sharpened or shaded on the fly, giving photo editors at their workstations a taste of the power that writers sitting at their word processors have enjoyed for years...
More important, it could provide a way to store moving pictures, which require large amounts of data, on conventional compact discs, to be played back by computers or on television sets. A palm-size disk could hold 17 hours of programming. It works like other magneto-optical disks: a laser heats and magnetizes the disk surface, then another laser reads the magnetized spots. But while current systems use lenses to focus the laser, this one funnels the light through an optical fiber that has been stretched 1,000 times as thin as a human hair -- a much tighter focus than...