Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For a few more moments, he delayed facing his awesome responsibility. Then he sighed and removed the neural-input cap that fitted snugly over his skull and had enabled him to call up his distant past. Like all spacers, Captain Singh belonged to the "Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only...
The season is well under way in which every act by the incumbent presidential candidate is viewed through an electoral lens. Florida just happens to be a critical state in November. Bush may yet demonstrate leadership in the wake of Andrew and turn the state's reconstruction to his advantage...
Passionate and energetic by nature, Johnson felt most drawn to an Expressionist idiom. His particular heroes were Chaim Soutine (especially the convulsive Ceret landscapes) and, later, Oskar Kokoschka. At the outset, his homages to Soutine's surging hills and toppling houses had a somewhat illustrational tone -- painting from the motif...
...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 a lens can achieve. The main stumbling block: the laser that reads these disks is too slow for commercial...
. The PANASONIC SOLID STATE CHIP CAMERA: Hidden in gutted books; High resolution and sensitivity; auto iris, low light lens.