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The answer may be provided by a fantastic new theory reported last week in the Dutch journal Physics Letters B. In their report, two renowned Princeton scientists and a graduate student suggest that the pressure of electromagnetic radiation, emanating from dense "threads" of pure energy called cosmic strings, could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Theory with Strings Attached | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

There will, of course, be all those delicious small perks that go with power: fresh flowers, current color photographs on the walls, embossed memo pads, napkins, playing cards, cigarette packages and matches with the presidential seal and inscriptions like "Aboard Air Force One." The new plane will be hardened against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Loftiest Chariot | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Other computing machines of that era solved mathematical problems in one of two ways. Either they estimated the solutions, using mechanical analog devices like slide rules and differential gears, or they computed them digitally, using the on-off action of slow-moving electromagnetic telephone switches. ENIAC, by contrast, was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Birthday Party for Eniac | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

In the Beverly Hills office of Dr. Barry Weintraub, Leila Ali, an Iranian- born clothing designer, stares at an image of her face on a television screen, fascinated by its changing profile. Beside her, the doctor manipulates a stylus on an electromagnetic pad. As they watch, the nose on Ali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The (Digitized) Eye of the Beholder | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

The biggest-ticket R. and D. item is Reagan's Space Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. The Administration wants to increase research funding for the SDI from $1.4 billion this year to $3.7 billion in 1986 and spend a whopping $30 billion during the next six years. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Bucks for Smarter Bombs | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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