Word: giant
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Think this second-year head coach felt a giant Tiger leave his back...
...company of the Family Channel. Although the principals won't comment, Murdoch reportedly would purchase a 30% share of IFE (which has been valued at as much as $1.5 billion), paying for it with preferred stock in News Corp. That would make Robertson a sizable shareholder in a media giant that, even without the Bundys, is one of the most flagrant purveyors of sex (Melrose Place), violence (The X-Files) and ill-mannered humor (The Simpsons) on television...
...have been the most expensive pizza-delivery system ever invented. Last week media giant Time Warner (TIME's parent company) announced that it was pulling the plug on its ambitious two-way cable-TV project, the Full Service Network, launched in Orlando, Fla., in 1994. At that time then ceo Gerald Levin predicted FSN would be "a medium for providing people with unprecedented access to information and entertainment." With just a remote, subscribers could scan countless TV channels, bring up movies on demand, shop at home or order a pizza...
...Thus while the Big Bang probably created almost as much antimatter as matter, virtually all of it, scientists believe, was consumed in a frenzy of annihilation long ago. In today's universe, antimatter must be created anew. And it is--in the form of subatomic particles, at least--in giant particle accelerators on earth and, in space, by one of several physical processes...
...real mystery, scientists say, is not that the positrons were created. It's that they were lobbed so many thousands of light-years above the galactic plane, like water droplets scattered by a giant geyser. Scientists offered several competing explanations last week. Rice University astrophysicist Edison Liang thinks black holes may be the key. While most of the stuff that falls into a black hole stays there, he observes, some of it gets blasted out in the form of a hot wind. Liang's hypothesis draws strength from the fact that there appear to be a good half a dozen...