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More important, it could provide a way to store moving pictures, which require large amounts of data, on conventional compact discs, to be played back by computers or on television sets. A palm-size disk could hold 17 hours of programming. It works like other magneto-optical disks: a laser heats and magnetizes the disk surface, then another laser reads the magnetized spots. But while current systems use lenses to focus the laser, this one funnels the light through an optical fiber that has been stretched 1,000 times as thin as a human hair -- a much tighter focus than...
...three years hanging out in Jersey City with cops, cocaine dealers and seemingly everyone else in the meanest parts of town. At a time when the Los Angeles riots have shocked the country into a pained awareness of its troubled neighborhoods, Clockers illuminates the underside of one city with laser-like clarity...
...because two more export licenses had been approved -- over Pentagon objections -- Iraq would soon have permission to make two long-sought purchases of American high technology. Eventually hundreds of export licenses would be approved to sell Iraq more than $600 million in dual-use technology. The purchases included a laser-guided welding system that Iraq would use to construct centrifuges that produce weapons-quality uranium...
Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., has found a broader use for computers. Some 200 classrooms and laboratories have been wired with a fiber- optics video information system, complete with color monitors, that allows professors to tap into the school's library of films, videos and laser discs. Tony Edmonds, chairman of the history department, uses the system to teach a course on the Vietnam War. "Now I can discuss the My Lai massacre, press a button and show a two-minute segment on it," he says. "I discuss the antiwar movement and pull up a segment on Abbie Hoffman...
Nearly every photocopier or laser printer in the University has a different VendaCard system. There are obvious problems with this system...