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...claim that if you scratch the top part of a CD, where the label is, it's actually worse than if you scratch the bottom. Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? The laser looks through the clear bit, so we assume that's the delicate side. But actually, because of the way they're made - you start off with this lump of clear plastic and then you stick the foil on it, and then you stick a label on top of that - it's much thinner on the label side than it is on the other side...
...also has a practical advantage: DVDs can be played on it. Every other upgrade in home entertainment - from 16 mm to laser disc to VHS and DVD - has meant the obsolescence of the previous format. This time you can embrace the new technology without mothballing your DVD collection. No awful separation anxiety. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...result, Obama's foreign policy will move at the speed of diplomacy - slower than a sclerotic donkey - punctuated by the occasional laser whoosh of a Hellfire missile in Waziristan. His policies will be nuanced and will not please anyone overmuch - not the Muslims (nor the Israelis) nor our NATO allies nor those Americans seeking ideological clarity or consistency. This will make for a round of more argumentative policy conferences next year, but perhaps fewer "How could you?" questions directed at Americans...
...Pusar with the laser overhead pass to a cutting Lin, who is fouled on the play. Harris dunks the dead ball...
Using a pair of ions, or charged particles, group leader Christopher Monroe and his team place each in a vacuum and keep them in position with electric fields. An ultra-fast laser pulse triggers the atoms to emit photons simultaneously. If the photons interact in just the right way, their parent atoms enter a quantum state known as entanglement, in which atom B adopts the properties of atom A even though they're in separate chambers a meter apart. When A is measured, the information that had been previously encoded on it disappears in accordance with the quirky rules...