Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second Gift Idea: Dust Covers...
Another relatively inexpensive gift is a dust cover to help keep a computer from collecting nasty particles floating around a dorm room. Dust covers ($10-$40, depending on its size and shape) are designed to fit specific computer models, printers and monitors--so it's important to know what brand and model you are trying to purchase...
...surprise the seance flopped. No handcuffs opened. No lights dimmed. No furniture levitated. No unearthly dust blew through the room. What is more, the Houdini contacted by Monroe bungled the answers to questions posed by members of the inner circle. "What was your favorite dessert?" Marie Blood, the great magician's niece, wanted to know. "Strawberry," gasped Monroe. "Wrong," chided Mrs. Blood, who traveled all the way from Pinehurst, N.C., for the occasion. "It was bread pudding," she informed the audience, "with Bing cherries...
...first saw Ed's paper, in 1985," Ostriker says, "it blew my mind." Reason: a vibrating, current- carrying loop is a radio transmitter, and if the current is large enough, the ultralow-frequency radio waves it emits will be incredibly powerful -- strong enough to push surrounding gases and dust incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought we had found a fatal flaw, that the whole thing was crackers. But we haven't so far." A string loop...
...problem remained. While Ostriker's calculations showed that the forces released by an exploding galaxy could condense gas and dust enough to begin the formation of new galaxies, they were not powerful enough to sweep clean any regions as large as the largest observed in the sky. Then what mysterious agent had created the giant voids...