Word: fasts
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...pursuits that are becoming more popular have one thing in common: the perception that they are somehow more challenging than a game of touch football. "Every human being with two legs, two arms is going to wonder how fast, how strong, how enduring he or she is," says Eric Perlman, a mountaineer and filmmaker specializing in extreme sports. "We are designed to experiment...
CmdrTaco loves the fast-chip story. Someone submitted the tip anonymously in the form of a link to a story about a new breed of microprocessors at a gaming site called FiringSquad. "An engineering sample of a 600-Mhz processor," says the Commander, reading. "Cool...
...analyze its light. They were confident that the resulting spectrum, not unlike the band of colors that appears when sunlight is passed through a prism, would tell them a lot. "Once you have a star's spectrum," says Djorgovski, "you can determine its temperature, its heavy elements and how fast it's moving with respect to Earth...
What impressed the research team was not just the fact that the gas was moving but how fast it was moving--6.5 million m.p.h., judging by the redshift. This is exactly the kind of searing speed a black hole ought to produce. While the Goddard scientists may not have the distinction of being the first to see a black hole itself, they are thus the first direct witnesses of its extraordinary power...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"For the Fed to raise again this year, there?d have to be extremely clear signs that the economy was growing too fast," says Baumohl. "He wants to preserve some liquidity for Y2K, and he wants to stay in the background when the political season heats up and everyone?s fighting about tax cuts." That?s just fine with the markets ?- they hate politics anyway. The only thing that might have spoiled their party is if Greenspan hadn?t raised rates -- good news like that, if it?s unexpected, can only cause a ruckus. "That...