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...practical promise. A more accurate atomic clock, for instance, is not just a curiosity. "If we can put better clocks into orbit," notes William Phillips, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, "we might improve the global positioning system enough to land airplanes in pea-soup fog." Even now it is not difficult to imagine that STMs might be employed by the semiconductor industry to produce minuscule electronic devices, that optical tweezers might be used by surgeons to correct defects in a single cell or that femtosecond lasers might eventually be harnessed to control, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventures In Lilliput | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...took Nagumo's fleet five days to reach the rendezvous point at Hitokappu Bay in the Kuriles just north of Japan's main islands. Fog swirled over the desolate outpost, and snow fell intermittently as the fleet steamed eastward at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...ever climbing and clanging; it's not just the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay and Alcatraz. The walk down the Vulcan Stairway and the view of downtown from the corner of 20th and Connecticut are only two of the thousands of arresting sights beckoning every single day -- when the fog isn't in, that is. I happen to like cool, breezy weather, especially in summer, so | the fog and I have become good friends. I will admit that it is an acquired taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Between the State | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...characters in O'Neil's Long Day's Journey have two ways of living in the fog they so desperately seek--either live the lie of the Norman Lear family, or drink themselves into oblivion. The actors in this production do not appear drunk enough to make their concessions natural. O'Neil's stage directions speak of a "real, if alcoholic, affection" expressed between Tyrone and Edmund, but this never becomes apparent. O'Neil; emphasized human kinship as a source of isolation but also of communality--O'Neil's love for his third wife empowered him to write this play...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: A Relentless Journey into Night | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

First, the Harvard men's tennis team's Albert Chang and Mike Shyjan's flight to the Volvo/ITCA intercollegiate championships in Austin, Texas was delayed three hours at Boston's Logan Airport because of thick fog...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Shyjan, Chang Kod in First Round of ITCA Championships | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

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