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...latest of a steady stream of small developments, researchers in the Netherlands and Japan reported in the journal Science last week that they had caused an electrical current in a superconducting ring to flow simultaneously clockwise (representing 1) and counterclockwise (0). The result was a "qubit," a quantum representation of both the digits of binary arithmetic. In other labs, qubits have been devised from single atoms. Whatever is used as the quantum abacus beads, the result is an exponential explosion in computing power...
...sand ridges--and the world's richest deposits of uranium. From this Canadian wilderness, centered on the Athabasca Basin, fully a quarter of the world's annual supply of uranium is unearthed, most of it from a single mine called McArthur River. In a world increasingly concerned about the flow and price of oil from the Middle East, demand for the mine's controversial product is quietly rising...
...correction we have seen, looking at decade-scale enrollment trends,” he wrote in an e-mail. “In the 1970s, enrollments in the first computer science courses were over 500, as high as 700 one year as I recall. These things do ebb and flow...
While they decided not to revive the old practice of ringing their bronze gong every time an unwanted diner enters, Adams residents have volunteered to help the dining hall staff police the flow of diners at the checker desk...
...Saturday night this guy, whom we’ll call Mr. Freestyla’, walked into the Grille and started flowing to a beat that was playing in the background—a flow about “the chick behind the grille” and how he’d like to “take me to his crib.” Keep in mind, Mr. Freestyla’ was a little white boy (sophomore) and while he was decent at freestyling and even decent looking, he was clearly drunk and at a complete loss for inhibition...